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Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes - Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission (Hardcover)
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Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes - Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission (Hardcover)
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Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street
prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin
trade, prostitution, and HIV!This unique book draws on face-to-face
interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with
heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their
counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James
Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in
the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between
street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national
differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work.
He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a
simple means of livelihood, are "choir girls" compared with their
beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform
sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other
diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences,
suggesting new directions for United States prostitution and
heroin-control policies--laws currently so interwoven that they
reinforce each other, accounting for a deadly circle of crime and
disease. In addition to the fascinating results of the author's
interviews with 72 female street prostitutes in San Bernardino,
California, and 102 more in Tijuana, Cd. Juarez, Cd. Victoria, and
Cuernavaca regarding their personal sexual, drug, and health
practices, and their criminal histories, Hotel Ritz-Comparing
Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS
Transmission explores: the licensing process for legal prostitutes
in Mexico the medical testing that Mexico requires prostitutes to
undergo the differences in what United States and Mexican
prostitutes know about HIV transmission the difference in condom
use between United States and Mexican prostitutes the potential
benefits of reforming prostitution and drug laws in both countries
the benefits of making methadone maintenence and syringesand
heroinfree for heroin-addicted prostitutes the proportion of United
States/Mexican prostitutes who would quit the trade if they learned
they had AIDS how the social support system in the United States
(housing subsidies, TANF/AFDC money, food stamps, etc.) leads to a
greater proportion of drug-addicted prostitutes than are found in
Mexico Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes:
Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission also provides you with a look at
the hierarchy of female sex workers, an explanation of the etiology
of AIDS transmission, and a concise history of heroin and
prostitution. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the
author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced
book easily understandable.
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