Twenty years’ worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been clients of sex workers. These men are about 50 percent more likely to be living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of international researchers, including Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux and Caroline Hodgins of McGill University.

Classified as: sex workers, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, paid, sex, work, men, transmission, prevention, public health, africa
Published on: 25 Jan 2022
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