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HIV Prevention and Labor Migration

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Migration refers to the movement of people from one place to another, temporarily or permanently, across borders or from one location to another within a defined territory. Individuals engage in labor migration voluntarily in search of better economic opportunities, or they may become victims of organized trafficking rings. Research has found that labor migrants are frequently at elevated risk of HIV due to individual and structural-environmental factors. Although a number of individual-level intervention strategies for HIV prevention among labor migrants have been evaluated, relatively few prevention interventions have attempted to address the structural-environmental factors that may predispose labor migrants to increased HIV risk.

Labor Migration and HIV Risk

Migration refers to the movement of people from one place to another, temporarily or permanently, across borders or from one location to another within a defined territory. Frequently, migration is driven by social,...

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  1. Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106-4976, USA

    Sana Loue

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  1. Dept. Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Thomas J. Hope

  2. Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Mario Stevenson

  3. University of California, San Diego Dept. Pathology, La Jolla, California, USA

    Douglas Richman

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Loue, S. (2014). HIV Prevention and Labor Migration. In: Hope, T., Stevenson, M., Richman, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9610-6_106-1

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