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:From June to December 1990, 806 prostitutes registered with the STD programme in Singapore for regular screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) were investigated for factors associated with STD incidence in the preceding year. The majority were foreigners (92.7% Malaysians and 3.1% Thais). Anal sex (0.4%) and intravenous drug use (0.9%) were rare. The overall STD incidence rate was 47.7 per 100. None was human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive. The crude and age-adjusted risk of STD was found to increase significantly with client load. An inverse relationship between condom use and STD risk was also observed. Mean condom use among clients was reported as 56.1% for spontaneous use and estimated as 75.4% following negotiation for condom use by prostitutes. Although the prostitutes negotiated for condom use with majority of the clients (85.5%) who did not use condoms spontaneously, they were successful with only about half of them (54.4%). Health education should be targeted at clients on the protective effects of condom use and at the prostitutes on skills in negotiating condom use. :Between June and December 1990, 806 prostitutes registered with the STD program in Singapore for regular screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were investigated for factors associated with STD incidence in the preceding year. The majority were foreigners (92.7% Malaysians and 3.1% Thais). Anal sex (0.4%) and iv drug use (0.9%) were rare. The overall STD incidence rate was 47.7/100. None was human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive. The crude and age-adjusted risk of STDs was found to increase significantly with client load. An inverse relationship between condom use and STD risk was also observed. Mean condom use among clients was reported as 56.1% for spontaneous use and estimated as 75.4% following negotiation for condom use by prostitutes. Although the prostitutes negotiated for condom use with the majority of clients (85.5%) who did not use condoms spontaneously, they were successful with only about 1/2 of them (54.4%). Health education should be aimed at those clients on the protective effects of condom use and at the prostitutes on skills in negotiating condom use.
journal_name
Int J STD AIDSjournal_title
International journal of STD & AIDSauthors
Wong ML,Tan TC,Ho ML,Lim JY,Wan S,Chan Rdoi
10.1177/095646249200300506subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-09-01 00:00:00pages
332-7issue
5eissn
0956-4624issn
1758-1052journal_volume
3pub_type
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