Sinha Abhik, Goswami Dipendra Narayan, Haldar Dibakar, Choudhury Kanti Bhusan, Saha Malay K, Dutta Shanta
ICMR, NICED, P- C.I.T. Scheme XM, Beleghata, 33, CIT Road, Subhas Sarobar Park, Phool Bagan, Beleghata, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, 32, Gorachand Rd, Beniapukur, Kolkata, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Mar 26;9(3):1728-1732. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1196_19. eCollection 2020 Mar.
HIV/AIDS is still a big public health challenge of India. Female Sex Workers (FSWs) belong to an important high risk group (HRG) in the transmission of HIV/AIDS. International borders have intermingling of population and also plenty of migrant population. Thus study on FSW s with relation to HIV/AIDS in an international border area is an important area of Research.
The present study was planned with the objectives of: to determine the sociodemographic profile of the FSW under the study, to assess their knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS and to find out their sexual practices.
It was a community based descriptive cross sectional study, done at the Indo-Bhutan border town of Jaigaon in Alipurduar District of West Bengal with the help of a Non-governmental organization (NGO) working on Targeted Interventions (TI) for FSW.
Total 90 FSWs were interviewed using predesigned pretested questionnaire. The questionnaires used were prior validated by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).
The data were analysed by SPSS 14.0.
The analysis revealed that 35 % of the study population were illiterate. It was also found that 81% of respondents had heard about HIV/AIDS; 76.7% had knowledge about its spread through vaginal sex, 67.8% had idea regarding its Mother to Child transmission. 92% felt PLHIV should not be kept away from others, 93% felt they shouldn't be deprived from property. Regarding sexual activity, 76.7% had sexual activity more than 3 times/week and 97.8% used condom persistently in last one year. Coordinated Efforts is required to be taken in this regard to tackle these problems.
艾滋病毒/艾滋病仍是印度面临的重大公共卫生挑战。女性性工作者是艾滋病毒/艾滋病传播中的一个重要高危群体。国际边境地区人口混杂，还有大量流动人口。因此，在国际边境地区开展与艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关的女性性工作者研究是一个重要的研究领域。
本研究旨在：确定所研究的女性性工作者的社会人口学特征，评估她们对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的知识和态度，并了解她们的性行为。
这是一项基于社区的描述性横断面研究，在西孟加拉邦阿里布尔杜尔区印不边境城镇贾冈进行，借助一个致力于针对女性性工作者开展有针对性干预的非政府组织开展。
使用预先设计并经过预测试的问卷对90名女性性工作者进行了访谈。所使用的问卷先前已得到国家艾滋病控制组织（NACO）的验证。
数据采用SPSS 14.0进行分析。
分析显示，35%的研究对象为文盲。还发现，81%的受访者听说过艾滋病毒/艾滋病；76.7%了解其通过阴道性行为传播，67.8%知晓其母婴传播途径。92%的人认为艾滋病毒感染者不应被他人隔离，93%的人觉得他们不应被剥夺财产。关于性行为，76.7%的人性交频率超过每周3次，97.8%的人在过去一年中始终坚持使用避孕套。在这方面需要采取协调一致的努力来解决这些问题。
