Marseille 2007
| Abstract #71 - PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF TRANSACTIONAL SEXUAL NETWORKING ON COMMUNITY WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF AIDS AT NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS LOCATIONS | ||||
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Session: 6.48: Posters A (Poster) on Monday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Dr BODE-LAW FALEYIMU - MICROBICIDE ADVOCACY NETWORK AND GENDER CONCERNS(MANAG), Nigeria |
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| Additional Authors: Ms LILIAN UBUANE, | ||||
| Aim: ISSUE- Traditional gender role behavior makes women to lack economic opportunities and sex becomes an important economic commodity. Community women and Transactional sex workers (TSWs) are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in the face of sexual network with Field based Oil Workers (FBOW) at Oil Locations. This survival strategy is one of the factors responsible for increased transactional sexual networking at Oil Locations. This interaction (focus and diffuse) results in immeasurable psychosocial, economic, medical consequences with gender-related abuse for women and requires urgent and innovative intervention. | ||||
| Method / Issue: PROJECT- A pre-program Key informant interviews and Focus group discussions were carried out amongst CSWs, Women settlers and FBOW at Oil Locations to assess the extent of this network. A Community-Based AIDS Education Program was initiated for these subsets to increase awareness and mitigate the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS at these locations. | ||||
| Results / Comments: RESULTS- There was a high level of sexual networking, poor awareness/misconceptions about HIV/AIDS and a poor risk perception amongst subsets. Condom use was low (14 %). A post program FGD revealed more informed settlers responding to the challenges of HIV/AIDS in their communities. | ||||
| Discussion: LESSON LEARNED- Commercial Sex workers, community women and their clients at Oil locations in Nigeria belong to a high-risk group for STIS/HIV/AIDS. | ||||
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