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Sex workers do not perceive their "regular partners" as sources of infection as evidenced by low condom use with this group, therefore appropriate messages need to be developed to target regular partners of sex workers. Furthermore, sex workers also need to be convinced of the importance of using condoms with their regular partners as a source. Once sensitized, people at risk are willing to pay for condoms. Although condoms were distributed free of charge throughout most of the project, during the end of project survey, 85 percent of project beneficiaries declared they would continue to use condoms even though they would have to pay for them in the future. Future STI prevalence studies should target boyfriends (or nonpaying regular partners) and clients of CSWs to establish boyfriends as a source of STI infection and verify claims of condom use with clients. |
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