24 research outputs found
Personal and Financial Risk Typologies Among Women Who Engage in Sex Work in Mongolia: A Latent Class Analysis
Women engaged in sex work bear a disproportionate burden of HIV infection worldwide, particularly in low- to middle-income countries. Stakeholders interested in promoting prevention and treatment programs are challenged to efficiently and effectively target heterogeneous groups of women. This problem is particularly difficult because it is nearly impossible to know how those groups are composed a priori. Although grouping based on individual variables (e.g., age or place of solicitation) can describe a sample of women engaged in sex work, selecting these variables requires a strong intuitive understanding of the population.Furthermore, this approach is difficult to quantify and has the potential to reinforce preconceived notions, rather than generate new information. We aimed to investigate groupings of women engaged in sex work. The data were collected from a sample of 204 women who were referred to an HIV prevention intervention in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Latent class analysis was used to create subgroups of women engaged in sex work, based on personal and financial risk factors.This analysis found three latent classes, representing unique response pattern profiles of personal and financial risk. The current study approached typology research in a novel, more empirical way and provided a description of different subgroups, which may respond differently to HIV risk interventions
Challenges Facing Community Home Based Care Programmes in Botswana
This study examines the role of Community Home-Based Care in Botswana
for people with HIV/AIDS and those with other terminal illnesses.
Kerkhoven and Jackson (1995) attribute the popularity of Community
Home-Based Care (CHBC) programmes in the developing countries to high
rates of HIV/AIDS. Botswana has adult HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 37
per cent and over 350,000 people living with HIV/AIDS. Rapid rise in
incidences of HIV/AIDS has hence resulted in increasing need for CHBC
and thus many CHBC services have been established through disorganized
and fragmented manners. This paper is an extended literature review. It
identifies and discusses challenges facing CHBC programmes in Botswana.
The findings indicate that poverty, high cost of community care, inadequate
medical facilities, poor infrastructures and socio-cultural issues have
threatened the sustainability of CHBC programmes in Botswana.
Recommendations and policy options are discussed.East African Social Science Research Review Vol. 23 (2) 2007: pp. 1-1
Social entrepreneurship for sexual health (SESH): a new approach for enabling delivery of sexual health services among most-at-risk populations.
Joseph Tucker and colleagues argue for social entrepreneurship, a new approach to help improve delivery of sexual health services. published_or_final_versio