| This article highlights health issues related to prostitution, with
special reference to the situation in Europe. Strategies aimed at improving
the health care of commercial sex workers, including programs for screening
for sexually transmitted infections, are discussed. Problems related to
failure to follow-up, particularly of mobile (migratory, international)
commercial sex workers, are considered. Other topics covered include counselling
on sexual risk reduction, including medical hotline telephone services
and clinical outreach work. Counselling commercial sex workers on contraception,
desired termination of pregnancy and hazards of illicit drug use are also
highlighted. The public-health consequences of delivering poor health care
to commercial sex workers are generally severely underestimated, particularly
in societies where prostitution is illegal.
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PMID: 10574642 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] |
