Community-based HIV prevention research among substance-using women in survival sex work: The Maka Project Partnership

摘要: Substance-using women who exchange sex for money, drugs or shelter as a means of basic subsistence (ie. survival sex) have remained largely at the periphery HIV and harm reduction policies services across Canadian cities. This is notwithstanding global evidence multiple harms faced by this population, including high rates violence poverty, enhanced vulnerabilities to transmission among smoke inject drugs. In response, participatory-action research project was developed in partnership with local work agency examine HIV-related vulnerabilities, barriers accessing care, impact current prevention strategies work. paper provides brief background health drug-related substance-using work, outlines development methodology community-based partnership. doing so, we discuss some strengths challenges research, well key ethical considerations, context street-level an urban setting.