The high-risk sexual practices of crack-smoking sex workers recruited from the streets of three American cities
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Female prostitutes who use crack cocaine often engage in risky sex behaviors that put them at risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Many of these women trade sex for crack or sex for money to buy crack. A survey of 419 crack-using prostitutes in three American cities found that many had sex with intravenous drug addicts or people known to be HIV-positive. Many have a history of a STD and most did not use condoms consistently. Twenty-eight percent were infected with HIV, 37% with syphilis and 67% with herpes simplex virus type 2.
Publication Name: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0148-5717
Year: 1998
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Crack cocaine smoking and oral sores in three inner-city neighborhoods
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Crack cocaine smokers who have oral sores may have a greater risk of HIV transmission. Among 2,323 young adults aged 18 years to 29 years from inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Miami and San Francisco, 60% were crack smokers. Oral sores were about two times more likely to be seen in crack smokers than nonsmokers and on those who injected drugs than those who did not. Out of 429 cocaine smokers who reported having receptive oral sex, those with oral sores were more apt to have HIV infection than those who reported no sores.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1996
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Temporal trends in HIV risk behaviors of out-of-treatment injection drug users and injection drug users who smoke crack
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Users of different drugs often have varied behavior and risk patterns, maiking it important to define differences between the different types in order to increase effectiveness of interventions. In a comparison of HIV risk behavior, a group of 366 injection drug users (IDUIs) who smoked crack was compared with a group of 212 IDUs who did not smoke crack. Both groups were poor and at great risk for HIV transmisssion, but those who smoked crack were poorer and at higher risk because of sexual risk-taking.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1077-9450
Year: 1998
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