Solidarity, support and competition among communities of female and male sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya.

Autor: Restar AJ; Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA., Valente PK; Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.; HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA., Ogunbajo A; Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA., Masvawure TB; Health Studies Program, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA., Sandfort T; HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA., Gichangi P; Department of Environmental and Health Sciences, School of Applied and Health Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya.; International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya.; International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.; Department of Anatomy, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya., Lafort Y; International Centre of Reproductive Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium., Mantell JE; HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Culture, health & sexuality [Cult Health Sex] 2022 May; Vol. 24 (5), pp. 627-641. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 05.
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2021.1876248
Abstrakt: Female and male sex workers are at elevated risk for HIV infection, psychological distress and other adverse health outcomes. It is therefore important to understand how sex workers' social relationships with one another might inform psychosocial support services for this population. We conducted semi-structured interviews to examine the formation and nature of social networks of 25 female and 25 male sex workers recruited from bars and clubs in Mombasa, Kenya. Relationships between and among female and male participants were often formed based on a mutual understanding of the challenging nature of sex work. Both groups described their relationships in terms of friendship and brotherhood/sisterhood and highlighted the following benefits of sex worker social networks: economic benefits, access to information about HIV/STIs and protection, and support against violence from clients and law enforcement agents. Social networks were often threatened by competition for clients and hence could result in conflict. However, sex workers explained that their sense of solidarity and reliance on one another for health, protection and economic well-being helped minimise conflict. The social networks of sex workers could therefore be used to leverage or optimise access to HIV prevention and care.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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