Gender, Migration, and Unprotected Causal and~Commercial Sex: Individual and Social Determinants of HIV and STD Risk Among~Female Migrants

Xiushi Yang and Guomei Xia ()
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Xiushi Yang: Old Dominion University, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Guomei Xia: HIV/AIDS Social Policy Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Chapter Chapter 5 in Gender Policy and HIV in China, 2009, pp 97-114 from Springer

Abstract: With 840,000 people in China officially estimated to be living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in mid 2003, China is experiencing a rapidly growing HIV epidemic. It has started to spread from high risk groups in isolated areas to the general population nationwide (Ministry of Health (MOH) and UNAIDS, 2003). Although the main route of HIV transmission is still needle sharing in the process of injecting drugs, heterosexual transmission of the AIDS virus is on the rise, increasing from 5.5% in 1997 to 10.9% in 2002.

Keywords: Sexually Transmit Infection; Risky Sexual Behavior; Consistent Condom; Behavioral Skill; Female Migrant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_6

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