Women Selling Sex in Russia: Analyzing Women’s Appraisal of Exploitation and Mistreatment Using Cognitive Dissonance and Cultural Sex Script Frameworks

Autor: Varvara Gulina, Lianne A. Urada, Veronika Odinokova, Maia Rusakova

Publikováno v: Sexes, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 463-476 (2022)

Globally, over a third of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In Russia, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and physical abuse of women are amongst the world’s highest. Applying cognitive dissonance theory and

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Perceptions of Violence within Child Protection Systems in Russia: Views of Children, Parents, and Social Workers

Autor: Veronika Odinokova, Vladlena P. Avdeeva, Maia Rusakova

This is a study on perceptions of child abuse and interventions in cases of abuse in the Family and Childhood Support Centres in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It raises the following questions: what is the divergence between the level of abuse experience

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https://doi.org/10.1108/s1537-466120190000025007

Potential impact of implementing and scaling up harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy on HIV prevalence and mortality and overdose deaths among people who inject drugs in two Russian cities:a modelling study

Autor: Ksenia Eritsyan, Peter Vickerman, Annick Borquez, Javier A. Cepeda, Alexandra Lyubimova, Veronika Odinokova, Leo Beletsky, Marina Shegay, Chris Beyrer, Natasha K. Martin, Matthew Hickman

Publikováno v: Cepeda, J A, Eritsyan, K, Vickerman, P, Lyubimova, A, Shegay, M, Odinokova, V, Beletsky, L, Borquez, A, Hickman, M, Beyrer, C & Martin, N K 2018, ' Potential impact of implementing and scaling up harm reduction and antiretroviral therapy on HIV prevalence and mortality and overdose deaths among people who inject drugs in two Russian cities : a modelling study ', Lancet HIV, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. e578-e587 . https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(18)30168-1

BACKGROUND: Most new HIV infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in eastern Europe and central Asia occur in Russia, where PWID have a high risk of overdose. In Russia, use of opioid agonist therapy (OAT) is prohibited, and coverage of needle

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https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/413f960b-06cf-4f74-a123-d315f9fb094a

Police sexual coercion and its association with risky sex work and substance use behaviors among female sex workers in St. Petersburg and Orenburg, Russia

Autor: Anita Raj, Maia Rusakova, Jay G. Silverman, Veronika Odinokova, Lianne A. Urada

Publikováno v: The International journal on drug policy
The International journal on drug policy, vol 25, iss 1

Background Extensive research documents that female sex workers (FSWs) in Russia are very vulnerable to abuses from police, including police sexual coercion. However, despite qualitative data suggesting abusive policing practices are more likely for

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4211608

Individual-level, network-level and city-level factors associated with HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in eight Russian cities: a cross-sectional study

Autor: Maia Rusakova, Tatiana T. Smolskaya, Olga Levina, Russell Barbour, Edward White, Veronika Odinokova, Robert Heimer, Ksenia Eritsyan

Publikováno v: BMJ Open

Objectives To ascertain HIV prevalence among people who inject drug (injection drug users (IDUs)) in the Russian Federation and identify explanations for the disparity in different cities. Design Cross-sectional survey with serological testing for HI

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3686233