King Rachel, Namugumya Ritah, Namuddu Catherine, Mbazzi Femke Bannink, Kasujja Francis Xavier, Nankabirwa Judith, Seeley Janet
Institute for Global Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America.
Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRC/UVRI & LSHTM) Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Jan 5;3(1):e0001268. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001268. eCollection 2023.
In 2020-2021 the COVID-19 pandemic led to multiple and diverse global public health response strategies globally and in Uganda to slow the spread of the virus by promoting wearing face coverings in public, frequent hand washing, physical distancing, restricting travel, and imposing home lockdowns. We conducted 146 interviews over four rounds of phone-follow up calls over 15 months with 125 young female sex workers coinciding in time with four different government-imposed lockdown periods in Kampala, Uganda, to assess the impact of these measures on young sex workers, their families and their communities as well as to gauge their resilience. Our findings revealed how COVID-19 fears and public health restrictions over time pushed an already marginalized population to the brink and how that pressure drove some participants into a new way of life.
在2020年至2021年期间，新冠疫情在全球和乌干达引发了多种不同的全球公共卫生应对策略，通过在公共场合推广佩戴口罩、勤洗手、保持社交距离、限制旅行和实施居家封锁来减缓病毒传播。在15个月的时间里，我们分四轮通过电话随访进行了146次访谈，对象是125名年轻女性性工作者，这与乌干达坎帕拉政府实施的四个不同的封锁期时间相吻合，目的是评估这些措施对年轻性工作者、她们的家庭和社区的影响，以及衡量她们的恢复力。我们的研究结果揭示了随着时间的推移，对新冠疫情的恐惧和公共卫生限制如何将一个已经边缘化的群体推向边缘，以及这种压力如何驱使一些参与者走上了新的生活道路。
