Health work, female sex workers and HIV/Aids
Global and local dimensions of stigma and deviance as barriers to effective interventions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4838255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Scambler (University College London), Frederique Paoli (University College London) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1848-1862 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.002 |
| PMID | 18295948 |
| OpenAlex | W1988745396 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 114 |
| References cited | 47 |
Attribution · Blame · Deviance (statistics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Psychological intervention · Sex work · Shame · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology
Gender-Based Attitudes, Hiv Misconceptions and Feelings Towards Marginalized Groups Are Associated With Stigmatization in Mumbai, India
A community empowerment approach to the HIV response among sex workers
Combination HIV prevention for female sex workers
The lived experience of UK street-based sex workers and the health consequences
The sociology of emotions in the psychiatric practice
“Whatever is in the ARVs, is Also in the PrEP” Challenges Associated With Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Female Sex Workers in South Africa
“What will we do if we get infected?”
The Global HIV Epidemics among Sex Workers
“She is the one who knows”
Human rights abuses and collective resilience among sex workers in four African countries
Facilitators and barriers to accessing reproductive health care for migrant beer promoters in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam
Sex work stigma and non-disclosure to health care providers
Understanding internalized HIV/Aids-related stigmas in the Dominican Republic
Measuring perceived stigma in female sex workers in Chennai, India
Successes and gaps in uptake of regular, voluntary HIV testing for hidden street- and off-street sex workers in Vancouver, Canada
Psychological health and HIV transmission among female sex workers
Psychosocial challenges of young people affected by HIV
Female sex work and HIV risks in Croatia
‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status…’
“I don't feel shy because I will be among others who are just like me…”
This is a natural process’
Honourable señoras , liminal campesinas and the shameful other
She's a professional like anyone else’
Boundaries of Contagion
Foreigners’ Attitudes Toward Individuals Who Sell Sex in Thailand
No one was there to care for us’
What makes a structural intervention? Reducing vulnerability to HIV in community settings, with particular reference to sex work
Stigma, discrimination and HIV outcomes among people living with HIV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The balancing act
Acceptability and perceptions of HIV oral self-testing across settings
If the doctors see that they don't know how to cure the disease, they say it's Aids’
Syndemic Factors and Resiliency Among Latina Immigrant Indirect Sex Workers in an Emergent Immigrant City
Reducing stigma in healthcare and law enforcement
Progress toward the Unaids 90–90-90 targets among female sex workers and sexually exploited female adolescents in Juba and Nimule, South Sudan
An integrated structural intervention to reduce vulnerability to HIV and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India
You are wasting our drugs”
Sexual and reproductive health outcomes among female sex workers in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa
Condom use within non-commercial partnerships of female sex workers in southern India
Exploring the Association Between Mobility and Access to HIV Services Among Female Sex Workers in Zimbabwe
Factors Related to Pregnancy Among Female Sex Workers Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic
Exploring the Impact of Underage Sex Work Among Female Sex Workers in Two Mexico–US Border Cities
Structural Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Sex Workers Living with HIV
Identifying Strategies to Cope with HIV-Related Stigma in a Group of Women Living with HIV/Aids in the Dominican Republic
Patterns of Sex Work Client Solicitation Settings and Associations with HIV/STI Risk Among a Cohort of Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland
Going beyond the clinic
I dodged the stigma bullet’
Drinking and working in a cantina
Sex workers talk about sex work
Female sex workers’ empowerment strategies amid HIV-related socioeconomic vulnerabilities in Cameroon
Occupational stigma as a primary barrier to health care for street-based sex workers in Canada
The other side of the bridge
Regulating sex work
Contextual factors influencing HIV risk behaviour in Central Asia
If you have children, you have responsibilities’
The Role of Social Stigma in the Lives of Female-Identified Sex Workers
Differences by sex in associations between injection drug risks and drug crime conviction among people who inject drugs in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Negative changes in illicit drug supply during Covid-19
Validation of the Minority Stress Scale among Italian gay and bisexual men
Social Contact Theory
Justice and Civil Liberties on Sex Work in Contemporary International Human Rights Law
Breastfeeding, ‘tainted’ love, and femmephobia
Stigma, agency, and motherhood
Policing roulette
Predicting Attitudes Towards Transactional Sex
Findommes, Cybermediated Sex Work, and Rinsing
Community-Led Economic Initiatives with Sex Workers
The Effect of Survival Economy Participation on Transgender Experiences of Service Provider Discrimination
Status passage, stigma and menstrual management
Stigma, intersectionality and motherhood
How important are venue-based HIV risks among male clients of female sex workers? A mixed methods analysis of the risk environment in nightlife venues in Tijuana, Mexico
From Empowerment to Exploitation
Perceptions of Sex Work-Related Stigma in Female Sex Workers from the Dominican Republic
Alcohol Use and Experiences of Partner Violence Among Female Sex Workers in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India
A gendered perspective of vulnerability to multiple stressors, including climate change, in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa
Disability stigmatization as a barrier to employment equity for legally-blind Canadians
Oh! She works in such a place”
Paralleling the Gay Man's Trauma
What does your dad do for a living? Children of prisoners and their experiences of stigma
Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, and Health of Sex Workers
Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Internalized Sex Work Stigma Scale among a Cohort of Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
HIV Risk Behaviors Among Three Classes of Female Sex Workers in Vietnam
Gender Identity and Sexual Experience
Client Retention and Health Among Sex Workers in Nairobi, Kenya
Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US
Stigma
Exploring stigmatisation among people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder
Encounters with unemployment in occupational health care
HIV prevention while the bulldozers roll
Over here, it's just drugs, women and all the madness
Evidence or stereotype? Health inequalities and representations of sex workers in health publications in England
Health discourse and within-group stigma in professional BDSM
Detrimental Effects of Community-Based Stigma
Let's talk about sex work in humanitarian settings
Mobility and sex work
Structural Violence in Health Care
Female Sex Workers and Their Gatekeepers in China
Marginal men, respectable masculinity and access to HIV services through intimate relationships with female sex workers in Kampala, Uganda
Symbolic capital and health
The gendered experience of stigmatization in severe and persistent mental illness in Lima, Peru
Different stage, different performance
Sexual behaviour in Britain
Sociology, social structure and health-related stigma
Health-related stigma
Profession of medicine
Interaction Ritual
Social change and health promotion among women sex workers in London
Transnational capitalist class
Jigsaws, Models and the Sociology of Stigma
Jigsaws, models and the sociology of stigma
Transnational Capitalist Class, The
International approaches to prostitutionLaw and policy in Europe and Asia
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Habermas, Critical Theory and Health
Sex Work Now
Globalization
Outsiders
For Public Sociology
For Public Sociology
Movements for change
New social and health movements
Re-framing Stigma
Sex Work, Mobility and Health in Europe
Aids
Challenging the stigma of sex work in India
Global Transformations
The Global Political Economy of Sex
Shan women and girls and the sex industry in Southeast Asia; political causes and human rights implications
The necessary contradictions of 'community-led' health promotion
Origins and working conditions of female sex workers in urban Thailand
HIV and Aids-related stigma and discrimination
Searching for Justice for Body and Self in a Coercive Environment
The Disappearing of a Migration Category
Profession of Medicine
Sex Work Stigma
Geography of Power; the Making of Global Economic Policy
Conceptualizing Stigma
Being epileptic
| Unique citing works | 114 |
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| Citations per year | 6,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 113 |