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Prostitutes and AIDS: Public Policy Issues

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 3, no. 2 (1988): 16-22
Judith Cohen, Priscilla Alexander, and Constance Wofsy

Prostitutes have often been held responsible for the spread of AIDS into the heterosexual population in this country, and various policy recommendations and enforcement procedures have been based on this assumption about transmission. However, these actions have often been taken without direct evidence of such transmission and without assessing the feasibility or effects of the proposed programs. This article will review available evidence concerning prostitution as a means of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission and will discuss policy recommendations and their effects.
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