Jedlicka J, Trmal J, Hubackova V, Vytlacil J, Leopold B, Steffan E, Heckmann W, Kraus M; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1996 Jul 7-12; 11: 374 (abstract no. Tu.C.2631).
National Institute of Public Health, Srobarova, Prague, Czech Republic.
Issue: "Opening doors" for prostitution in the Central and Eastern Europe has followed shortly after deep societal changes in this region in 1989. Project: Border-crossing social work project in the border area between Saxony (Federal Republic of Germany, F.R.G.) and North/Western Bohemia (Czech Republic) has been launched in 1993. The project is sponsored by various international, German and Czech authorities and coordinated by the Social Pedagogical Institute in Berlin. Three bilingual border-crossing social teams are currently operating in this area, addressing female commercial sex workers (FCSWs), clients, pimps, persons using narcotics and surrounding community. One of the teams is using mobile ambulance unit offering free of charge gynaecolocical and STDs/HIV examinations. All teams perform counselling, distribute condoms, lubricants and various preventive materials (brochures, leaflets, project newsletter etc.), provide sterile injecting equipment, if necessary, and offer various social services. Results/Lessons Learned: Thousands of women offering sexual services in this area have been addressed so far with the aim to improve their knowledge and skills in individual protection against STDs/HIV and to induce appropriate behavioural changes. Personal dependance on pimps and "overpay" by Western clients are the major reasons for continuing unsafe sex practices among FCSWs originating from different countries of Central/Eastern Europe (mainly Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and different countries of the former Soviet Union).
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Behavior
- Berlin
- Bulgaria
- Condoms
- Czech Republic
- Demography
- Europe, Eastern
- Female
- Germany
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Prostitution
- Romania
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Slovakia
- Social Work
- USSR
Other ID:
UI: 102218708
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