HIV vulnerabilities of sex-trafficked Indian women and girls
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HIV prevalence and predictors of infection in sex-trafficked Nepalese girls and women.
CONTEXT Sex trafficking of girls and women is widespread across South Asia and is recognized as both a violent gender-based crime and major human rights violation. Inadequate empirical data exist to characterize this phenomenon and its related health consequences, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of HIV infection among repatriated sex...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0020-7292
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2009.06.009