Violence against women who sell sex in eastern and southern Africa: a scoping review

Macleod, Catriona I; Reynolds, John H; Delate, Richard

Title: Violence against women who sell sex in eastern and southern Africa: a scoping review
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I, Reynolds, John H, Delate, Richard
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 2024
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/441380
Identifier: vital:73881
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231160847"
Description: Women who sell sex (WSS) are vulnerable to violence. We present a scoping review of the last decade of research on the prevalence and incidence of, factors associated with, and services regarding violence against WSS in Eastern and Southern African (ESA). A systematic search of various databases resulted in 20 papers being reviewed. Inclusion criteria, applied by the first two authors, were as follows: empirical papers, key research problem is violence against WSS, and conducted in ESA countries. The lifetime prevalence of violence revealed in the studies ranged from 21% to 82%. A pattern of generalized violence against WSS from paying clients, male partners, strangers, family members, friends/acquaintances, and the authorities emerged. Factors associated with violence included the context within which the sex work occurs, alcohol use, type of sex exchange interactions, and personal factors (low education, low income, marriage, youth, high client volume, time in sex work, forced sexual debut, and internalized sex work stigma). WSS seldom access services after violence. Evaluations of two programs, a woman-focused HIV intervention, and the Diagonal Interventions to Fast-Forward Reproductive Health project, showed improvements in gender-based violence services. Findings suggest that targeted programmes should be paired with improving general health services and focus on promoting collective agency among WSS.
Format: computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (13 pages), pdf
Publisher: SAGE
Language: English
Relation: Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, Macleod, C.I., Reynolds, J.H. and Delate, R., 2024. Violence against women who sell sex in eastern and southern Africa: a scoping review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 25(1), pp.691-703, Trauma, Violence, and Abuse volume 25 number 1 p. 691 2024 1552-8324
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