Structural determinants of health among women who started selling sex as minors in Burkina Faso

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes : JAIDS
Ashley GrossoStefan Baral

Abstract

To explore the prevalence of and factors associated with initiation of selling sex as a minor. Data were drawn from cross-sectional studies of adult female sex workers (FSW) recruited through respondent-driven sampling in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. FSW completed a questionnaire that included a retrospective question regarding the age at which they started selling sex. Separate multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted for each city to examine associations with initiation of selling sex as a minor (<18 year old), controlling for current age. Of study participants, 27.8% (194/698) reported selling sex as a minor, ranging from 24.4% (85/349) in Bobo-Dioulasso to 31.2% (85/349) in Ouagadougou. In Ouagadougou, early initiates were more than twice as likely to report someone ever forced them to have sex [age-adjusted odds ratio (aaOR): 2.54, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.53 to 4.23]. In Bobo-Dioulasso, those who started as minors were more likely to report someone ever tortured them (aaOR: 2.29, 95% CI: 1.28 to 4.10). In both cities, early initiates were more likely to not use a condom with a client if offered more money (Ouagadougou aaOR: 2.34, 95% CI: 1.23 to 4.47; Bobo-Dioulasso aaOR: 2.37, 95% ...Continue Reading

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