Sex worker, client sex behaviour and condom use in Harare, Zimbabwe

AIDS Care
D WilsonC Mutero

Abstract

One-hundred sex workers and 100 clients were interviewed at a bar/disco complex in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1989. Sociodemographic characteristics of sex workers and clients were examined. Almost a third of sex workers and nearly 90% of clients had engaged in commercial sex over 5 or more years. Sex workers reported that they worked an average of 4.6 nights a week, averaged 2.2 clients a night and charged a mean of Z$8.7 per session and Z$19.8 per night. Clients reported that they averaged 7.4 visits a month to a sex worker and paid a mean of Z$6.2 per session and Z$17.2 per night. Over half the sex workers said their last client was drunk and nearly two-thirds said he was a repeat client. Sex workers and clients were asked about the sex behaviours completed in their last paid sex act. Vaginal intercourse was reported by 98% of sex workers and clients alike. Manual stimulation of the sex worker's and client's genitalia was reported by roughly 80% of sex workers and clients. Oral and anal sex were rarely reported. Fifty-four percent of sex workers and 44% of clients reported using a condom in their last paid sex act. Client reports thus suggest that sex worker reports of sex acts and condom use with the last client possess considerab...Continue Reading

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