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Afghanistan
           

    Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
HIV awareness and condom use among female sex workers in Afghanistan: implications for intervention.
Todd CS, Nasir A, Stanekzai MR,  et al

AIDS Care
. 2011 Mar;23(3):348-56.
Abstract

Contraceptive Utilization and Pregnancy Termination Among Female Sex Workers in Afghanistan.
Todd CS, Nasir A, Raza Stanekzai M, et al
 
J Womens Health (
Larchmt)
. 2010 Sep 29
Abstract

HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C prevalence and associated risk behaviors among female
sex workers in three Afghan cities.
Todd CS, Nasir A, Stanekzai MR, et al

AIDS
. 2010 Jul;24 Suppl 2:S69-75

Abstract

 

Israel
           

    Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
How Israeli social workers perceive adolescent girls in prostitution.
Peled E, Lugasi R.
Child Abuse Negl. 2015 Jan 22
Abstract

Knowledge, attitudes, sexual practices and STI/HIV prevalence in male sex workers and other men who have sex in Tel Aviv, Israel: a cross-sectional study.
Mor Z, Dan M.

Sex Transm Infect
. 2012 Jun 29.
Abstract

Sexually transmitted infections among brothel-based sex workers in Tel-Aviv area, Israel: high prevalence of
pharyngeal gonorrhoea
.
Linhart Y, Shohat T, Amitai Z,et al
Int J STD AIDS. 2008 Oct;19(10):656-9.
Abstract
 

Sexually transmissible infections among illegal female sex workers in Israel.
Cwikel JG, Lazer T, Press F, Lazer S.
Sex Health. 2006 Dec;3(4):301-3.
Abstract
 
Trafficked female sex workers awaiting deportation: comparison with brothel workers.
Cwikel J, Chudakov B, Paikin M, et al  
 
Arch Women Ment Health. 2004 Oct;7(4):243-249.
Abstract
 
Women brothel workers and occupational health risks.
Cwikel J, Ilan K, Chudakov B.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 Oct;57(10):809-15.
Abstract

The motivation and mental health of sex workers.
Chudakov B, Ilan K, Belmaker RH, Cwikel J.
J Sex Marital Ther 2002 Jul-Sep;28(4):305-15
Abstract

 

Iran
           

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Worker Population in Tehran, Iran: Application of Direct Capture-Recapture Method.
Karami M, Khazaei S, Poorolajal J, et al
AIDS Behav. 2017 Jun 16.
Abstract

Injection drug use among female sex workers in Iran: Findings from a nationwide bio-behavioural survey.
Karamouzian M, Mirzazadeh A, Rawat A, et al
Int J Drug Policy. 2017 May 4;44:86-91.

Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE

Violence from a Sexual Partner is Significantly Associated with Poor HIV Care and Treatment Outcomes among Female Sex Workers in the Dominican Republic.
Mendoza C, Barrington C, Donastorg Y,  et al

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
. 2016 Nov 15

Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Correlates of HIV Testing among Female Sex Workers in Iran: Findings of a National Bio-Behavioural Surveillance Survey.
Shokoohi M, Karamouzian M, Khajekazemi R, et al

PLoS One
. 2016 Jan 25;11(1):e0147587.
Paper

HIV, HCV, HBV, HSV, and syphilis prevalence among female sex workers in Tehran, Iran, by using respondent-driven sampling.
Moayedi-Nia S, Bayat Jozani Z, Esmaeeli Djavid G, et al
AIDS Care. 2015 Nov 13:1-4.
Abstract

Risk and vulnerability of key populations to HIV infection in Iran; knowledge, attitude and practises of female sex workers, prison inmates and people who inject drugs.
Khajehkazemi R, Haghdoost A, Navadeh S,  et al

Sex Health
. 2014 Nov 24.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Network scale-up correction factors for population size estimation of people who inject drugs and female sex workers in iran.
Maghsoudi A, Baneshi MR, Neydavoodi M, Haghdoost A.
PLoS One. 2014 Nov 3;9(11):e110917.
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
HIV prevalence and related risk behaviours among female sex workers in Iran: results of the national biobehavioural survey, 2010.
Sajadi L, Mirzazadeh A, Navadeh S,  et al
Sex Transm Infect
. 2013 Nov;89 Suppl 3:iii37-iii40.
Paper

HIV and Related Risk Behaviors Among Female Sex Workers in Iran: Bias-Adjusted Estimates from the 2010 National Bio-Behavoral Survey.
Mirzazadeh A, Nedjat S, Navadeh S, et al
AIDS Behav. 2013 Jul 16
Abstract

Bias analysis to improve monitoring an HIV epidemic and its response: approach and application to a survey
of female sex workers in Iran.

Mirzazadeh A, Mansournia MA, Nedjat S, et al

J Epidemiol Community Health
. 2013 Jun
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Accuracy of HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Reported by Female Sex Workers, Iran:
A Method to Quantify Measurement Bias in Marginalized Populations.
Mirzazadeh A, Haghdoost AA, Nedjat S,  et al
AIDS Behav. 2012 Sep 15.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Unprotected Sex with Injecting Drug Users among Iranian Female Sex Workers:
Unhide HIV Risk Study,
Ahmadi K, Rezazade M,  NafarieM, et al

AIDS Research and Treatment
Vol 2012 , Art ID 651070
Paper

        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 

 

HIV, HSV2 and syphilis prevalence in female sex workers in Kerman in 2010: using respondent-driven sampling
S. Navadeh, A. Mirzazadeh,L. Mousavi
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

 

Jordan
           

    Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Patterns of coping with partner violence: experiences of refugee women in Jordan.
Al-Modallal H.
Public Health Nurs. 2012 Sep;29(5):403-11

Abstract
 

Lebanon
           

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Transactional sex among youths in post-conflict Liberia.
Atwood KA, Kennedy SB, Barbu EM,  et al
J Health Popul Nut
r
. 2011 Apr;29(2):113-22.
Abstract

Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections among female sex workers and
men who have sex with men in Lebanon: prevalence, risk behaviour and immune status.
Kassak K, Mahfoud Z, Kreidieh K, et al

Sex Health
. 2011 Jun;8(2):229-33.
Abstract

HIV/AIDS among female sex workers, injecting drug users and men who have sex with men in
Lebanon: results of the first biobehavioral surveys.
Mahfoud Z, Afifi R, Ramia S,
et al
AIDS
. 2010 Jul;24 Suppl 2:S45-54.

Abstract

 

Saudi Arabia
           

    Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Course and outcome of pregnancy in 54 persistently HIV-1-seronegative sex workers and
their infants.
Chibber RM, Khuranna A, al-Sibai MH, et al.
J Reprod Med 2002 Dec;47(12):1016-20
Abstract
 

Turkmenistan
           

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Lives of Sex Workers in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan: Their Sexual Practices and Knowledge
About STI/HIV
Z  Chariyeva
(135 APHA)
Abstract
 

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