News tagged with sex trade workers
Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds
The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of "johns" who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan ...
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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Outreach van makes sex trade workers safer: research
(PhysOrg.com) -- A van that circled Vancouver streets frequented by sex trade workers made them feel safer and reduced their likelihood of being attacked, according to a University of British Columbia study.
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Lab makes digital design more PC
Anyone who uses a computer knows it can be the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of technology. Log on one day and you’ve got the helpful information resource. Power it up the next and you meet the bully who broadcasts ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Dangerous and under the radar: New study examines ways to protect sex workers
Sex work is unprotected, increasingly dangerous and needs to be decriminalized, according to a new report published in the Canadian Review of Sociology. Co-authored by Concordia University and University of Windsor resear ...
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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New health insurance survey: 9 million adults joined ranks of uninsured due to job loss in 2010
An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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HIV/AIDS treatment curbs spread of disease: study
The BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) published an important study today in the globally respected Lancet medical journal. The study strongly reinforces the view that the benefits of highly active antiretroviral ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 19, 2010 |
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HIV prevention strategy key to curbing epidemic and cutting long-term treatment costs
Increasing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) treatment for people with HIV/AIDS will provide significant cost savings over a relatively short period of time, according to a formal economic analysis led by researchers ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Updated HIV therapy guidelines would reduce risk of transmission, save lives, billions in costs
Researchers from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia today released a comprehensive study revealing that the 2008 IAS-USA therapy guidelines for commencing HIV treatment ...
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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Brazil proves developing countries can use generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic
Brazil's nearly two-decade effort to treat people living with HIV and AIDS shows that developing countries can successfully combat the epidemic. Inexpensive generic medicines are a large part of the solution, say researchers ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Inexperienced prostitutes most at risk of sexual infections
Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has sh ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 12, 2008 |
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An Elephant Tail: New Method Tracks Endangered Critters
By analyzing chemicals in tail hair from elephants that wore radio collars, researchers tracked the diet and movements of elephants in Kenya – a method aimed at reducing human-elephant conflicts and determining ...
Jan 03, 2006 |
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