Background Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional
ill health, harms that have been linked to the criminalisation of sex work. We synthesised …

Background HIV and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infections cause a substantial
global disease burden and are epidemiologically correlated. Two previous systematic …

Background HIV disproportionately affects gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with
men (MSM) in Africa, where many countries criminalise same-sex behaviour. We assessed …

3 Bickler SN, Weiser TG, Kassebaum N, et al. Global burden of surgical conditions. In:
Debas HT, Donkor P, Gawande A, eds. Essential surgery: disease control priorities, 3rd edn …

Agriculture has been implicated as a potential driver of human infectious diseases.
However, the generality of disease-agriculture relationships has not been systematically …

Quantifying HIV‐1 transmission risk per‐act of anal intercourse (AI) is important for HIV‐1
prevention. We updated previous reviews by searching Medline and Embase to 02/2018 …

Background. Higher prices for unprotected sex threaten the high levels of condom use that
contributed to the decline in Zimbabwe's human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. To …

There is extensive qualitative evidence of violence and enforcement impacting sex workers
who are ethnically or racially minoritized, and gender or sexual minority sex workers, but …

While extensive literature documents how criminalisation harms sex workers' health and
rights, limited research has critically examined how interactions between criminal-justice …

Understanding the dynamic nature of sex work is important for explaining the course of HIV
epidemics. While health and development interventions targeting sex workers may alter the …