Anna Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3893218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kensington Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights
Introduction\nThis open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.\nSex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and economic exclusion and marginalization.…
Speaking of sex workers
Sex workers remain a vulnerable population at risk for HIV acquisition and transmission. Research suggests that interventions at the individual level, such as condom distribution, are less effective in preventing HIV among sex workers than structural changes such as allowing safer work settings and reducing the harassment and abuse of sex workers by clients and police. In the US, HIV incidence has not declined in the last decade. This may be due …
Understanding the Promise
Mobilizing women at the grassroots to shape health policy
Competition to advance issues on public policy agendas is constant. Political scientists agree that professional "policy entrepreneurs" (researchers, academics, and bureaucrats) serve as conduits in this process. Grassroots advocacy has always been part of the political landscape as non-professional people also take on the role of policy advocates or activists, to get specific problems and preferred solutions onto public and policy agendas and mo…
Recommendations from “Bringing Gender Home
Bringing It Back Home
What's up with nonoxynol-9
Advantage-S, a spermicide containing nonoxynol-9 (N-9), has recently been shown in a randomised, controlled trial sponsored by UNAIDS not to offer women protection against sexual transmission of HIV The women in the trial, all sex workers, reported having an average of 3.6 partners per day and about 70 coital acts per month during the study period. At the end of the trial, the Advantage-S group was found to have a higher incidence of new HIV infe…
Mobilizing women at the grassroots to shape health policy
Competition to advance issues on public policy agendas is constant. Political scientists agree that professional "policy entrepreneurs" (researchers, academics, and bureaucrats) serve as conduits in this process. Grassroots advocacy has always been part of the political landscape as non-professional people also take on the role of policy advocates or activists, to get specific problems and preferred solutions onto public and policy agendas and mo…
What's up with nonoxynol-9
Advantage-S, a spermicide containing nonoxynol-9 (N-9), has recently been shown in a randomised, controlled trial sponsored by UNAIDS not to offer women protection against sexual transmission of HIV The women in the trial, all sex workers, reported having an average of 3.6 partners per day and about 70 coital acts per month during the study period. At the end of the trial, the Advantage-S group was found to have a higher incidence of new HIV infe…
Recommendations from “Bringing Gender Home
Bringing It Back Home
Mobilizing women at the grassroots to shape health policy
Competition to advance issues on public policy agendas is constant. Political scientists agree that professional "policy entrepreneurs" (researchers, academics, and bureaucrats) serve as conduits in this process. Grassroots advocacy has always been part of the political landscape as non-professional people also take on the role of policy advocates or activists, to get specific problems and preferred solutions onto public and policy agendas and mo…
Understanding the Promise
Speaking of sex workers
Sex workers remain a vulnerable population at risk for HIV acquisition and transmission. Research suggests that interventions at the individual level, such as condom distribution, are less effective in preventing HIV among sex workers than structural changes such as allowing safer work settings and reducing the harassment and abuse of sex workers by clients and police. In the US, HIV incidence has not declined in the last decade. This may be due …
Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights
Introduction\nThis open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.\nSex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and economic exclusion and marginalization.…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 works) · Sex work and related issues (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works)