Sex Workers and the Cost of Safe Sex : The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta

Sex Workers and the Cost of Safe Sex : The Compensating Differential for Condom Use in Calcutta

The practice of safe sex by commercial sex workers is considered central to preventing the transmission of AIDS in developing countries. The authors estimate the compensating differential for condom use among sex workers in Calcutta, based on results from a survey conducted in 1993. If, as suggested...

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Main Authors: Rao, Vijayendra, Gupta, Indrani, Jana, Smarajit
Format: Publications & Research
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
AIDS awareness
AIDS epidemic
AIDS interventions
AIDS transmission
AIDS virus
anal sex
average age
brothels
commercial sex
commercial sex workers
condom use
condoms
contraceptives
Epidemiology
families
family planning
female sterilization
gay men
health care
heterosexual sex
HIV
HIV infections
HIV transmission
Hygiene
immune system
infections
Innovation
intervention
married couples
medical treatment
method of contraception
middle school
migrants
parents
peer educator
peer educators
Population Studies
primary school
professions
Prostitution
Public Health
red light area
Risk Factors
risks of infection
safe sex
Sex
sex industry
sex practices
Sex Trade
sex work
sex worker
sex worker communities
Sex workers
sexual activity
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
social workers
STD
STDs
transmission
unmarried women
use of condoms
Vaccines
Vaginal sex
Commercial sex workers
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Condoms
Venereal diseases
Income generation
Instrumental variables (statistics)
Loss of work capacity
Safety measures
Occupational safety
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21578

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