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     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 

 

The relationship between violence and engagement in drug dealing and sex work among street-involved youth.
Hayashi K, Daly-Grafstein B, Dong H,
Can J Public Health. 2016 Jun 27;107(1):e88-e93
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
The 'Stolen Generations' of Mothers and Daughters: Child Apprehension and Enhanced HIV Vulnerabilities for Sex Workers of Aboriginal Ancestry.
Duff P, Bingham B, Simo A,  et al

PLoS One
. 2014 Jun 13;9(6):e99664.
Paper

Youth, violence and non-injection drug use: nexus of vulnerabilities among lesbian and bisexual sex workers.
Lyons T, Kerr T, Duff P,
 et al
AIDS Care
. 2014 Jan 2
Abstract

Individual and structural vulnerability among female youth who exchange sex for survival.
Miller CL, Fielden SJ, Tyndall MW, et al |
J Adolesc Health
. 2011 Jul;49(1):36-41.
Abstract

Survival sex work and increased HIV risk among sexual minority street-involved youth.
Marshall BD, Shannon K, Kerr T,  et al   
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
. 2010 Apr;53(5):661-4.
Abstract

Survival sex work involvement as a primary risk factor for hepatitis C virus
acquisition in drug-using youths in a Canadian setting.
Shannon K, Kerr T, Marshall B, Li K, et al
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
. 2010 Jan;164(1):61-5.
Abstract

 

Adults
 

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Impact of sex work on risk behaviours and their association with HIV positivity among people who inject drugs in Eastern Central Canada: cross-sectional results from an open cohort study.
Campeau L, Blouin K, Leclerc P,  et al

BMJ Open
. 2018 Jan 31;8(1):e019388.
Paper

Strategies and Challenges in Preventing Violence Against Canadian Indoor Sex Workers.
Bungay V, Guta A
Am J Public Health. 2018 Jan 18:e1-e6.
Abstract

Criminalizing Sex Work Clients and Rushed Negotiations among Sex Workers Who Use Drugs in a Canadian Setting.
Landsberg A, Shannon K, Krüsi A, et al 
J
 Urban Health
. 2017 May 3.
Abstract

Violence, trauma and living with HIV: Longitudinal predictors of initiating crystal methamphetamine injection among sex workers.
Argento E, Strathdee SA, Goldenberg S, et al

Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2017 Apr 19;175:198-204.
Abstract

Recent im/migration to Canada linked to unmet health needs among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Findings of a longitudinal study.
Sou J, Goldenberg SM, Duff P,  et al
Health Care Women Int. 2017 Mar 16:
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Structural Determinants of Health among Im/Migrants in the Indoor Sex Industry: Experiences of Workers and Managers/Owners in Metropolitan Vancouver.
nberg SM, Krüsi A, Zhang E, et al

PLoS One
. 2017 Jan 31;12(1):e0170642.
Paper

Community mapping of sex work criminalization and violence: impacts on HIV treatment interruptions among marginalized women living with HIV in Vancouver, Canada.
Goldenberg SM, Deering K, Amram O,  et al

Int J STD AIDS
. 2017 Jan 1:956462416685683
Abstract

FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Dual sexual and drug-related predictors of hepatitis C incidence among sex workers in a Canadian setting: Gaps and opportunities for scale-up of HCV prevention, treatment and care.
Goldenberg SM, Montaner J, Braschel M, et al
Int J Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 24.
Paper

Use of injectable hormonal contraception and HSV-2 acquisition in a cohort of female sex workers in Vancouver, Canada.
Socías ME, Duff P, Shoveller J,
Sex Transm Infect. 2016 Nov 7
Abstract

Third-world realities in a first-world setting: A study of the HIV/AIDS-related conditions and risk behaviors of sex trade workers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Bird Y, Lemstra M, Rogers M, Moraros J.
SAHARA J. 2016 Dec;13(1):152-61.
Abstract

Unmet health care needs among sex workers in five census metropolitan areas of Canada.
Benoit C, Ouellet N, Jansson M.

Can J Public Health
. 2016 Oct 20;107

Abstract

Barriers to Viral Suppression Among Female Sex Workers: Role of Structural and Intimate Partner Dynamics.
Duff P, Goldenberg S, Deering K, et al

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
. 2016 Sep 1;73(1):83-90.
Abstract

The Loss of Boystown and Transition to Online Sex Work: Strategies and Barriers to Increase Safety Among Men Sex Workers and Clients of Men.
Argento E, Taylor M, Jollimore J, et al
Am J Mens Health. 2016 Jun 28
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Universal Coverage without Universal Access: Institutional Barriers to Health Care among Women Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada.
Socías ME, Shoveller J, Bean C,  et al
PLoS One. 2016 May 16;11(5):e0155828.
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Work environments and HIV prevention: a qualitative review and meta-synthesis of sex worker narratives.
Goldenberg SM, Duff P, Krusi A.

BMC Public Health
. 2015 Dec 16;15:1241
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Exploring the experience of chronic pain among female Survival Sex Workers: a qualitative study.
Allen C, Murphy A, Kiselbach S, VandenBerg S, Wiebe E.
BMC Fam Pract
. 2015 Dec 21;16(1):182.
Paper

The role of dyad-level factors in shaping sexual and drug-related HIV/STI risks among sex workers with intimate partners.
Argento E, Shannon K, Nguyen P, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Dec 1;157:166-73
Abstract

Risk Indicators of Depressed Mood Among Sex-Trade Workers and Implications for HIV Risk Behaviour.
Rogers MR, Lemstra ME, Moraros JS.

Can J Psychiatry
. 2015 Dec 1;60(12):548-55.
Abstract

Barriers to Cervical Screening Among Sex Workers in Vancouver.
Duff P, Ogilvie G, Shoveller J,  et al 
Am J Public Health. 2015 Nov 12:e1-e8
Abstract

Negotiating Violence in the Context of Transphobia and Criminalization: The Experiences of Trans Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada.
Lyons T, Krüsi A, Pierre L,  et al 
Qual Health Res. 2015 Oct 28.
Abstract

Social Cohesion Among Sex Workers and Client Condom Refusal in a Canadian Setting: Implications for Structural and Community-Led Interventions.
Argento E, Duff P, Bingham B, et al,
AIDS Behav. 2015 Oct 26.
Abstract

Social and Structural Factors Shaping High Rates of Incarceration among Sex Workers in a Canadian Setting.
Socías ME, Deering K, Horton M, et al  

J Urban Health
. 2015 Aug 11
Abstract

Structural Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Sex Workers Living with HIV: Findings of a Longitudinal Study in Vancouver, Canada.
Goldenberg SM, Montaner J, Duff P,  et al
AIDS Behav. 2015 Jul 7.
Abstract

Structural determinants of inconsistent condom use with clients among migrant sex workers: findings of longitudinal research in an urban Canadian setting.
Sou J, Shannon K, Li J, et al
Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Jun;42(6):312-6.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Reducing stigma in healthcare and law enforcement: a novel approach to service provision for street level sex workers.
Bodkin K, Delahunty-Pike A, O'Shea T
Int J Equity Health. 2015 Apr 9;14(1):35.
Paper

Violence prevention and municipal licensing of indoor sex work venues in the Greater Vancouver Area: narratives of migrant sex workers, managers and business owners.
Anderson S, Jia JX, Liu V, et al
Cult Health Sex. 2015 Feb 17:1-17
Abstract

The relationship between social, policy and physical venue features and social cohesion on condom use for pregnancy prevention among sex workers: a safer indoor work environment scale.
Duff P, Shoveller J, Dobrer S,  et al

J Epidemiol Community Health
. 2015 Feb 12.
Abstract

Taint: an examination of the lived experiences of stigma and its lingering effects for eight sex industry experts.
Bowen R, Bungay V.
Cult Health Sex. 2015 Feb;18(2):184-97.
Abstract

Sex Work and Motherhood: Social and Structural Barriers to Health and Social Services for Pregnant and Parenting Street and Off-Street Sex Workers.
Duff P, Shoveller J, Chettiar J, et al

Health Care Women Int
. 2014 Dec 16:0
Abstract

Uptake of a women-only, sex-work-specific drop-in center and links with sexual and reproductive health care for sex workers.
Kim SR, Goldenberg SM, Duff P,  et al
 
Int J Gynaecol Obstet
. 2014 Nov 27.
Abstract

Prevalence and correlates of nonmedical prescription opioid use among a cohort of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada.
Argento E, Chettiar J, Nguyen P, Montaner J, Shannon K.
Int J Drug Policy. 2014 Jul 31.
Abstract

Complexities of Short-Term Mobility for Sex Work and Migration among Sex Workers: Violence and Sexual Risks, Barriers to Care, and Enhanced Social and Economic Opportunities.
Goldenberg SM, Chettiar J, Nguyen P,  et al

J Urban Health
. 2014 Jul 24.
Abstract

Pregnancy intentions among female sex workers: recognising their rights and wants as mothers.
Duff P, Shoveller J, Feng C,  et al

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Ca
re
. 2014 Jul 23
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE

High Prevalence and Partner Correlates of Physical and Sexual Violence by Intimate Partners among Street and Off-Street Sex Workers.
Argento E, Muldoon KA, Duff P, et al

PLoS One
. 2014 Jul 10;9(7):e102129
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
The 'Stolen Generations' of Mothers and Daughters: Child Apprehension and Enhanced HIV Vulnerabilities for Sex Workers of Aboriginal Ancestry.
Duff P, Bingham B, Simo A,  et al

PLoS One
. 2014 Jun 13;9(6):e99664.
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Criminalisation of clients: reproducing vulnerabilities for violence and poor health among street-based sex workers in Canada—a qualitative study
Krüsi A, Pacey K, Bird L,  et al

BMJ Open
.
2014 Jun 2;4(6):e005191

Paper


Suboptimal plasma HIV-1 RNA suppression and adherence among sex workers who use illicit drugs in a Canadian setting: an observational cohort study.
Ti L, Milloy MJ, Shannon K,  et al

Sex Transm Infect
.
2014 Feb 12
Abstract

International Migration from Non-endemic Settings as a Protective Factor for HIV/STI Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada.
Goldenberg SM, Liu V, Nguyen P,et al
 
J Immigr Minor Health
. 2014 Apr 4.

Abstract


Generational sex work and HIV risk among Indigenous women in a street-based urban Canadian setting.
Bingham B, Leo D, Zhang R,  et al

Cult Health Sex
. 2014 Mar 21
Abstract

Sexual safety practices of massage parlor-based sex workers and their clients.
Kolar K, Atchison C, Bungay V .

AIDS Care
.
2014 Mar 12.
Abstract

Never Innocent Victims: Street Sex Workers in Canadian Print Media.
Strega S, Janzen C, Morgan J,  et al

Violence Against Women
. 2014 Jan 28.
Abstract

Piloting a 'spatial isolation' index: The built environment and sexual and drug use risks to sex workers.
Deering KN, Rusch M, Amram O,et al
Int J Drug Policy. 2013 Dec 22
Abstract

FULL-TEXT  ARTICLE
Sex-for-Crack exchanges: associations with risky sexual and drug use niches in an urban Canadian city.
Duff P, Tyndall M, Buxton J, et al  
Harm Reduct J
. 2013 Nov 15;10(1):29.
Paper

Early sex work initiation independently elevates odds of HIV infection and police arrest among adult sex workers in a Canadian setting.
Goldenberg SM, Chettiar J, Simo A, et al 
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Aug 26

Abstract

Client demands for unsafe sex: the socio-economic risk environment for HIV among street and off-street sex workers.
Deering KN, Lyons T, Feng CX,  et al

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
. 2013 Apr 22
Abstract

Identity management, negotiation and resistance among women in the sex trade in London, Ontario.
Orchard T, Farr S, Macphail S,  et al
Cult Health Sex. 2012 Dec 12
Abstract

Community-Based HIV and STI Prevention in Women Working in Indoor Sex Markets.
Bungay V, Kolar K, Thindal S,  et al
Health Promot Pract. 2012 Aug 10
Abstract

Outdoor brothel culture: the un/making of a transsexual stroll in Vancouver's West End, 1975–1984
Ross B
J Hist
Sociol
. 2012;25(1):126-50.
Abstract

Negotiating Safety and Sexual Risk Reduction With Clients in Unsanctioned Safer Indoor Sex Work Environments:
A Qualitative Study.
Krüsi A, Chettiar J, Ridgway A,  et al

Am J Public Health
. 2012 Jun;102(6):1154-1159.
Abstract

Sex work and the public health impacts of the 2010 Olympic Games.
Deering KN, Chettiar J, Chan K,  et al

Sex
Transm Infect
. 2012 Mar 21
Abstract

Sex work involvement among women with long-term opioid injection drug dependence who enter opioid
agonist treatment.
Marchand K, Oviedo-Joekes E, Guh D,  et al

Harm Reduct J
. 2012 Jan 25;9(1):8.
Abstract

Bedford v. Canada: a paradigmatic case toward ensuring the human and health rights of sex workers.
Galldin K, Robertson L, Wiseman C.
HIV AIDS Policy Law Rev. 2011 Oct;15(3):1, 5-14.
Abstract

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
HIV, Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation, and Sex Work: A Qualitative Study of Intersectional Stigma
Experienced by HIV-Positive Women in Ontario, Canada.

Logie CH, James L, Tharao W, Loutfy MR.

PLoS Med
. 2011 Nov;8(11):e1001124.
Paper

Courtesy stigma: a hidden health concern among front-line service providers to sex workers.
Phillips R, Benoit C, Hallgrimsdottir H, Vallance K.

Sociol Health Illn
. 2011 Nov 21.
Abstract

Periodic presumptive treatment of curable STIs among sex workers: a systematic review.
Steen R, Chersich M, Gerbase A, et al

AIDS
. 2011 Nov 16.
Abstract

Risky health environments: Women sex workers' struggles to find safe, secure and non-exploitative
housing in Canada's poorest postal code.
Lazarus L, Chettiar J, Deering K,  et al

Soc Sci Med
. 2011 Oct 4
Abstract

Comprehensive Proteomic Study Identifies Serpin and Cystatin Antiproteases as Novel Correlates of
HIV-1 Resistance in the Cervicovaginal Mucosa of Female Sex Workers.
Burgener A, Rahman S, Ahmad R,  et al
J Proteome Res. 2011 Oct 5
Abstract

FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
Homelessness Among A Cohort of Women in Street-Based Sex Work: The Need for Safer Environment Interventions.
Duff P, Deering K, Gibson K, Tyndall M, Shannon K.

BMC Public Health
. 2011 Aug 12;11(1):643.
Paper

The street cost of drugs and drug use patterns: relationships with sex work income
in an urban Canadian setting.
Deering KN, Shoveller J, Tyndall MW,  et al

Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2011 Jun 23.
Abstract

British Columbia: sex workers granted standing to challenge Criminal Code.
Chu SK.

HIV AIDS Policy Law Rev
. 2011 Apr;15(2):32

Abstract

Victimization in Off-Street Sex Industry Work.
O'Doherty T.
Violence Against Women. 2011 Jun 10
Abstract

Risk behaviours among internet-facilitated sex workers: evidence from two new
datasets.
Cunningham S, Kendall TD.

Sex Transm Infect
. 2010 Dec;86 Suppl 3:iii100-105
Abstract
 

Risk behaviours among internet-facilitated sex workers: evidence from two new datasets
Cunningham S, Kendall TD.

Sex Transm Infect
. 2010 Sep 18
Abstract
 
A peer-led mobile outreach program and increased utilization of detoxification and
residential drug treatment among female sex workers who use drugs in a Canadian setting.
Deering KN, Kerr T, Tyndall MW, et al
Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2010 Aug 18.
Abstract

Crystal methamphetamine use among female street-based sex workers: Moving beyond
individual-focused interventions.
Shannon K, Strathdee S, Shoveller J,  et al

Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2010 Aug 30.
Abstract

A peer-led mobile outreach program and increased utilization of detoxification
and residential drug treatment among female sex workers who use drugs in a
Canadian setting.
Deering KN, Kerr T, Tyndall MW,  et al
Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2010 Aug 18.
Abstract

 

 
    Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 

Intimate partner violence is associated with low sexual decision making power among sex workers: potential non-commercial
HIV risk pathways

K. Muldoon, K. Deering, C. Feng, et al
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

Dual HIV risks among female sex workers who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada
A. Heron, T. Kerr, C. Lai, et al
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

Sex, work, rights: litigation as a tool to promote sex workers' rights to health and equality
S.K.H. Chu, R. Lang, K. Shannon, et al
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

Client demands for unsafe sex: the socio-economic risk environment among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada
K. Deering, S. Strathdee, C. Feng, et al
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

Sometimes he's rough with me
A. Schoepp
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

Spatial clustering of inconsistent condom use by sex work environments: need for spatially-oriented structural HIV responses in the sex industry
K. Shannon, C. Feng, O. Amram, et al
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract

The impact of laws criminalizing commercial sex clients and third parties on the health and safety of sex workers
based on the street and in drug venues: a Canadian case study

A.-A. Caouette, A. Schoepp
(XIX International AIDS Conference)
Abstract


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