A community-based qualitative study on the experience and understandings of intimate partner violence and HIV vulnerability from the perspectives of female sex workers and male intimate partners in North Karnataka state, India

• Main Authors: Andrea K. Blanchard (Author), Sapna G. Nair (Author), Sharon G. Bruce (Author), Chaitanya AIDS Tadegattuva Mahila Sangha (Author), Satyanarayana Ramanaik (Author), Raghavendra Thalinja (Author), Srikanta Murthy (Author), Prakash Javalkar (Author), Priya Pillai (Author), Martine Collumbien (Author), Lori Heise (Author), Shajy Isac (Author), Parinita Bhattacharjee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Research has increasingly documented the important role that violence by clients and the police play in exacerbating HIV vulnerability for women in sex work. However few studies have examined violence in the intimate relationships of women in sex work, or drawn on community partn...