Exploring the Context of Trafficking and Adolescent Sex Industry Involvement in Tijuana, Mexico

Consequences for HIV Risk and Prevention

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12437403
AutoresShira M Goldenberg (0000-0003-1633-9749, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, autor de correspondencia), Jay G Silverman (0000-0001-9520-672X, University of California San Diego), David Engström (San Diego State University, CA, USA), Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico), Ietza Bojorquez (0000-0003-1723-7269, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Paula M Usita (San Diego State University), Paula Usita (San Diego State University, CA, USA), María Luisa Rolón (University of California San Diego), Steffanie A Strathdee (0000-0002-7724-691X, University of California San Diego)
Año2015
Volumen21
Número4
Páginas478-499
Fecha de publicación2015-02-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801215569079
PMID25648946
OpenAlexW2165013730
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas48

Coerced and adolescent sex industry involvement are linked to serious health and social consequences, including enhanced risk of HIV infection. Using ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with 30 female sex workers with a history of coerced or adolescent sex industry involvement, we describe contextual factors influencing vulnerability to coerced and adolescent sex industry entry and their impacts on HIV risk and prevention. Early gender-based violence and economic vulnerability perpetuated vulnerability to coercion and adolescent sex exchange, while HIV risk mitigation capacities improved with increased age, control over working conditions, and experience. Structural interventions addressing gender-based violence, economic factors, and HIV prevention among all females who exchange sex are needed

Coercion (linguistics · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Environmental health · Family medicine · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Injury prevention · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sex work · Sexual coercion · Suicide prevention · Vulnerability (computing · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology