Truck Drivers and Casual Sex : An Inquiry into the Potential Spread of HIV/AIDS in the Baltic Region
This study, perhaps the first of its kind in this region, is based on a study that explores the practice of casual sex among truck drivers, and commercial sex workers in the border areas of the Baltic region at a point of time, and, uses this evide...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/07/5124849/truck-drivers-casual-sex-inquiry-potential-spread-hivaids-baltic-region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14919 |
| Summary: | This study, perhaps the first of its
kind in this region, is based on a study that explores the
practice of casual sex among truck drivers, and commercial
sex workers in the border areas of the Baltic region at a
point of time, and, uses this evidence to extrapolate the
potential impact on the spread of HIV/AIDS in these
countries. While the threat of an HIV/AIDS epidemic cannot
be taken lightly in any country of the Europe and Central
Asia region, four countries - Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and
Estonia - stand out as being particularly vulnerable. First,
the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is relatively high, and is
rapidly increasing in locations neighboring these countries
to the east, like Ukraine, Kaliningrad, Belarus, and
Moldova, where public health conditions are also rapidly
deteriorating. Second, because of their geographical
location, those four countries stand at the crossroads of
the main east-west, and north-south transport corridors, and
represent the link between countries of the former Soviet
Union and western Europe. The open borders, and rapid
transit threatens to broaden the sweep of the HIV epidemic,
as drug injectors and sex workers come into contact with
other population groups. After the Introduction which
provides background, Section 2 reviews similar studies
carried out elsewhere in the world. Section 3 describes the
methodology employed in this study, followed by a brief
description of the data in Section 4. Finally, Section 5
contains a discussion of the results, and policy implications. |
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