Whats happening behind the closed door?
–> Home | Browse by Day | or Program | Author Index 199332 Female sex workers and their sexual health: What’s happening behind the closed door? Monday, November 9, 2009 Marium ul Mutahara, MSS, MPS , Population Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh Azaher Ali Molla, MD, MPHM, MSc , Programme Support Office, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh Although Bangladesh is a low prevalence country for HIV/AIDS, all the factors that may allow rapid spread of infection leading to an epidemic are present here. These factors include high-risk behavior, lack of awareness, very mobile populations and being surrounded by countries that have a higher prevalence of HIV. Biological markers serving as surrogates of risk behavior such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for sexual risk and hepatitis C for transmission through blood are very high in some of the key vulnerable groups including sex workers. STIs are low in the general population but are higher in t
