Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in

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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... Read more

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. Juárez, Cd. Victória, 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 syringes—and heroin—free 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. Read less

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Theory, Research Design, and Study Limitations
Mexican Study
Main Drugs of Abuse and Injection Methods
Concern of Street FSWs in Requiring Condom Use Compared to Ten Years Ago
Chapter 2. Etiology of HIV Transmission
Incidence and Prevalence of HIV/AIDS
Hepatitis C (HCV), a Potentially More Serious Health Threat
Reported AIDS Cases in Mexico
The Relationship Between Commercial Sex Work, AIDS, and IDU
Chapter 3. A Short History of Heroin and Commercial Sex Work
Heroin
Definitions of Prostitution
History of Prostitution
The FSW Hierarchy and the Bottom Rung of the Ladder
Chapter 4. Study Setting and Methods
Why Mexico?
Why Particular Mexican Cities Were Chosen in Which to Interview Prostitutes
The Tijuana Street Interview Experience
FSW Interviews in Ciudad Juárez
FSW Interviews in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas
Cuernavaca, Morelos: Another Interview Site
Chapter 5. Findings: Comparing Mexican and San Bernardino Sex Workers
Interview Research Questions
Analysis and Discussion
Chapter 6. Summary, Recommendation, and Conclusions
Recommendations for Mexican FSWs
Recommendations for American FSWs
Conclusions
Appendix. Survey Questionnaire
References
Index

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R Dennis Shelby

Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission

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