Description
Book SynopsisExplore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV!This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work. He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a simple means of livelihood, are âœchoir girlsâ compared with their beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences, suggesting new directions for Unite
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Theory, Research Design, and Study Limitations
- Mexican Study
- Main Drugs of Abuse and Injection Methods
- Concern of Street FSWs in Requiring Condom Use Compared to Ten Years Ago
- Chapter 2. Etiology of HIV Transmission
- Incidence and Prevalence of HIV/AIDS
- Hepatitis C (HCV), a Potentially More Serious Health Threat
- Reported AIDS Cases in Mexico
- The Relationship Between Commercial Sex Work, AIDS, and IDU
- Chapter 3. A Short History of Heroin and Commercial Sex Work
- Heroin
- Definitions of Prostitution
- History of Prostitution
- The FSW Hierarchy and the Bottom Rung of the Ladder
- Chapter 4. Study Setting and Methods
- Why Mexico?
- Why Particular Mexican Cities Were Chosen in Which to Interview Prostitutes
- The Tijuana Street Interview Experience
- FSW Interviews in Ciudad Juárez
- FSW Interviews in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas
- Cuernavaca, Morelos: Another Interview Site
- Chapter 5. Findings: Comparing Mexican and San Bernardino Sex Workers
- Interview Research Questions
- Analysis and Discussion
- Chapter 6. Summary, Recommendation, and Conclusions
- Recommendations for Mexican FSWs
- Recommendations for American FSWs
- Conclusions
- Appendix. Survey Questionnaire
- References
- Index
