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Spanish prostitutes least likely to use condoms

The Centre for Epidemiological Studies into Sexually-Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT) started a pioneering study in Spain in 2005 to look into the prevalence of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) among female sex workers (SWs). The objective was to monitor the rates of infec...

Canadian Street Prostitutes Requests Protection

Though sex trade has been legalized in Canada the sex workers feel that the Canadian Law which does not allow the prostitutes to communicate in public for negotiating with their customers in public and does not allow to do sex business in their residence or on an rented flat.// The sex workers orga...

Russian Miss HIV Positive Says Victims Are Treated Like Prostitutes

In a unique way to spread awareness of the dreaded HIV virus, Russia marked the World AIDS Day by crowning 24-year-old Svetlana Izambayeva from southern Siberia as Miss HIV Positive.// The result of the contest, which was conducted over the Internet, was announced today. Russian health official...

AMTA Applauds Craigslist Decision, Calls for Protection of Massage Therapists

... 'erotic services' section as an opportunity to clarify for the public that prostitutes who claim to provide massage are not massage therapists. "The public and m...dvertising their massage practices through Craigslist. Unfortunately, prostitutes frequently claim to offer massage and use the term 'masseuse' to appear as ...

Is sex work?

...table in Sweden. Two years later the Bundestag, the German parliament, approved a law with the aim of integrating sex sellers into society. Since then prostitutes in Germany have been entitled to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and pensions in the same way as all other skilled workers. Furthermore, runn...

Cheap Condoms for a Safer Sex Industry

... 31 /PRNewswire/ -- - Safe4now Foundation Allows prostitutes to Prevent Aids or STD Infection Though condom p... line of work, survey shows that one in every five prostitutes is offering her services without using a condom. T...ibute cheap condoms for the sex industry, allowing prostitutes to work safer, more pleasant and cheaper. From n...

President Museveni's Visit Protested by HIV/AIDS Experts

...promoting abstinence-only strategies and condemning condom distribution: * He has said that condoms are only appropriate for "high risk" groups like prostitutes and truck drivers and at an international AIDS summit in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2004, Museveni decried condoms as encouraging promiscuity, and lashed o...

Lack of HIV prevention for male sex workers in the Caribbean could fuel AIDS epidemic

...e primarily heterosexuals, and this particular population of male sex workers who have sex with tourists is largely neglected. That population of male prostitutes grows larger as the traditional, agricultural jobs dry up. Funding comes from a variety of sources: governments, multilateral organizations such as th...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

... similar trial testing whether the contraceptive jelly nonoxynol-9 might work as an anti-HIV microbicide, failed in 2000, when the study revealed that prostitutes in South Africa who used it had a significantly higher infection rate than those who were given an inactive placebo gel. "It's very, very disappo...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...tance in hotels or massage parlours. Among prostitutes working on the street, about 80 percent come from ...r, leader of the Organisation for the Interests of prostitutes and a sex worker herself, told AFP. "The p...ld AFP. He disagrees that violence against prostitutes increases when buying sex is banned. "It d...

Prostitutes in Biological News

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 27, 2008

...pain Phone: 34-976761873 Fax: 34-976762388 Email: cnerin@unizar.es ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vaginal proteins in HIV-resistant prostitutes suggest new prevention measures Journal of Proteome Research Researchers in Canada report discovery of unusual proteins in a small group of Keny...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

... The new study finds that the number of infected prostitutes in a country is the key to explaining the degree t...new study is entitled “Size Matters: The Number of prostitutes and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic” and is freely av...relevant once the study controls for the number of prostitutes in a country. The study finds that the more Muslim...