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Fifty-nine percent of clients reported always using condoms with FSWs, Clients had a high number of partners; Living in Gonaives, not being Protestant, being employed, and having tried marijuana were associated with syphilis infection.
Older clients, residents of Gonaives and Voodoo practitioners were more likely to be infected with HSV These men had many sex partners and condom use differed, depending on the category of partner. Clients of FSWs likely act as a bridge population, facilitating the spread of STI throughout the general population in Haiti, and should be targeted in prevention programs. Citations References The prevalence of HIV infection among the clients of female commercial sex workers FCSWs and the sex workers themselves has been reported to be ranging from 5.
Globally, behavioural factors such as frequent unprotected sex with multiple sex workers, expectation of high sexual pleasure and sexual satisfaction have been reported to be the main contributors proximal factors to the transmission of the epidemic among a group of people who are the clients of FCSWs [1, 3, 4,6,7,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Lack of knowledge of how HIV transmis- sion and prevention can occur, the practice of consuming prophylactic antibiotics prior to sex- ual engagement as an HIV prevention method and perceptions of good appearance as HIV safe sex partners, have also been identified as influencers of unsafe sexual practices among the clients of FCSWs [4,6,[26][27][28][29].
