SEX WORK AND RISK TO HIV/AIDS IN UGANDA

The HIV/AIDS pandemic still remains a major health §problem in Uganda. While early at the onset of the §AIDS epidemic, infection rates among certain groups §of commercial sex workers in Uganda were as high as §80%, the impact of AIDS interventions on sex worker §behavior and HIV/AIDS prevalence among this group §was not well known. Given the central role of sex §workers as high frequency transmitters in the §epidemiology of STD and HIV/AIDS, these groups need §priority focus in efforts to control sexually §transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. §In this book, the author undertook an in-depth study §of the causes and nature of prostitution, risk §practices, vulnerability and sexual behavioural §patterns related to HIV/AIDS among commercial sex §workers in Kampala City, the Capital of Uganda. §Ultimately, the study sought to provide information §on what interventions were necessary for protecting §sex workers and their clients from HIV/AIDS §infection. The book aims at providing guidance to §policy makers and program providers of the critical §facets in fighting HIV among Sex workers and the §genaral public, who constitute their clients.