Open AccessAlcohol Use, Unprotected Sex, and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Female Sex Workers in China
Author(s) -
Bo Wang,
Xiaoming Li,
Bonita Stanton,
Lei Zhang,
Xiaoyi Fang
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0b013e3181e2118a
Subject(s) - medicine , condom , psychological intervention , context (archaeology) , demography , environmental health , logistic regression , unsafe sex , alcohol , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , syphilis , psychiatry , family medicine , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology , biology
Alcohol use has been suggested to interfere with condom use and to increase sexual risk behaviors. However, data on the prevalence of this practice among female sex workers and its association with condom use and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are limited.