Title Information
Title
“We Don’t Need Your Pity, We Need Our Rights:” Understanding the Experiences of Sex Workers within the HIV Continuum of Care in the United States
Abstract
This study explores the experiences of sex workers within the HIV continuum of care (CoC) that is made up of HIV education, prevention, and treatment in the United States. Sex workers have long been framed as vectors of disease within the United States and this study looks to provide and understand alternative narratives of disease, disease prevention, and wellness among sex workers. This project explores the experiences of the HIV CoC specific to sex workers and situates these experiences in a historical context. This research examines how and why these experiences diverge from those of the general public and explores how the HIV CoC could be more sex worker friendly and what operating within a rights-based framework would look like for the HIV CoC. Carried out through community-based research, this project also highlights the importance of research that is developed by sex workers and informed by their understanding of the nuances of the sex industry and decades of experience in organizing to promote better conditions for sex workers. Through this human rights-based approach, this research explores how the HIV CoC can serve to alleviate or prevent discrimination faced in other sectors of a sex worker’s life.
Name
Name Part
Brown, Julianna
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre")
Creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Nunn, Amy
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Braun, Lundy
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University
Name Part
Division of Biology and Medicine
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sponsor
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2018
Physical Description
Extent
115 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Note: thesis
Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2018
Note (displayLabel="Concentration")
Health and Human Biology
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1982348")
Topic
Sex workers
Subject (Local)
Topic
HIV Continuum of Care
Subject (Local)
Topic
sex workers
Subject (Local)
Topic
community-based research
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
theses
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/etkk-7967
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