Background Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional
ill health, harms that have been linked to the criminalisation of sex work. We synthesised …

The transgender sex worker experience of health in Singapore is multidimensional, working
at the intersections of culture, social class, and gendered marginalization. Drawing on in …

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, those involved with the criminal legal
system experience disproportionate vulnerability to infection, transmission, and mortality …

The importance of intervention in communication research has continued to expand in a
variety of research traditions including applied communication, engaged scholarship, and …

Female sex workers (FSWs) in Nepal continue to be disproportionately at risk for Sexually
Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV. Due to stigma related to sex work and HIV …

Drawing upon the lived experiences of 35 female sex workers (FSW) in Kathmandu, Nepal,
this article explores the performativity of sex work–mother dual identities. Performativity …

There is an abundance of health research with women in street-based sex work, but few
studies examine what health means and how it is practiced by participants. We embrace …

Medicalization theory aims to delineate how and why non-medical issues become
demarcated within the realm of medical jurisdiction. The theory postulates that …

In Singapore, the institutional preference for biomedicine and the cultural importance of
traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have created tensions between the two medical …

Sex workers have been demonstrated to have increased vulnerabilities to HIV and a high
population prevalence of the disease. Despite their increased risk, sex workers have been …