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M Grier

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PubMed1998

Streets, drugs, and the economy of sex in the age of AIDS.

Drug addicted women whose economic and social base is urban streets face limited options for income generation and multiple dangers of predation, assault, arrest, and illness. Exchanging sex for money or drugs offers one important source of income in this context. Yet the legal, social, and safety risks associated with these exchanges reduce the likelihood of regular safer sex practices during these encounters, thereby increasing the risk of HIV infection. Such conditions lead women engaged in sexual exchanges for money to varied and complex responses influenced by multiple and often contradictory pressures, both personal and contextual. Street-recruited women drug users in an AIDS prevention program in Hart-ford, Connecticut reported a range of condom use when engaging in sex for money exchanges. This paper explores their differences by ethnicity, economic resources, and drug use, and analyzes these and other factors that impact on street risks through sexual income generation. Surveys and in-depth interviews with drug-addicted women sex workers describe their various approaches to addressing multiple risks on the streets and suggest significant effort by women in these contexts to avoid the many risks, including HIV infection.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

AIDS prevention for African-American and Latina women: building culturally and gender-appropriate intervention.

African-American and Latino women are at high risk of HIV infection through heterosexual transmission, reflected in the significant increases in reported AIDS cases of women thus infected. Few AIDS-prevention programs have addressed this risk for women by directly, separately and, in appropriate ways, focusing on specific women's issues of gender roles, sexuality, and differential power relationships with men, in the context of racial and class relations, as these affect HIV transmission. This article discusses the contributions of a community-based AIDS-prevention program to the development of culturally and gender-appropriate intervention for African-American and Latina women at high risk. Further such programs are needed which build on the use of ethnic cultural concepts, racial and other social relations, and acknowledge issues specific to minority women in order to prevent their infection with HIV.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗