Working women's sexual risk taking in Jamaica

Le Franc, Elsie and Wyatt, Gail Elizabeth and Chambers, Claudia and Eldemire, Denise and Bain, Brendan and Ricketts, Heather

Heather Ricketts

Social science & medicine (1982)

1996

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ; Adult ; AIDS/HIV ; Condoms ; Decision Making ; Demographic aspects ; Dependency (Psychology) ; Developing countries ; Female ; Financial Support ; HIV ; HIV (Viruses) ; HIV Infections - ethnology ; HIV Infections - prevention & control ; HIV Infections - transmission ; HIV risks ; Human immunodeficiency virus ; Humans ; Industrial Workers ; Interpersonal Relations ; Jamaica ; Jamaican women ; LDCs ; Middle Aged ; Motivation ; Power (Psychology) ; Proletariat ; Risk ; Risk taking ; Role ; Sampling Studies ; Sexual Behavior ; Sexual Behavior - ethnology ; Sexual behaviour ; Sexual Partners ; Social Values - ethnology ; socio economic ; socio economic HIV risks Jamaican women ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Women ; Women's health ; Women Working - psychology ; Working Class ; Working class in television ; Working class women ; Working Women

1411–1417

Although the rates of HIV are increasing among female populations in developing countries, there is little information available about factors influencing sexual risk taking among working class women. This paper describes some of the issues discussed by two groups of 58 women working in Jamaica: Informal Commercial Importers and women working in the Freezone. These women discuss their economic vulnerability, expectations about the role of men as providers, multiple partners, perceptions of children as resources and concern about physical abuse as factors that could influence decisions about condom use. The implications of these findings are discussed for their impact on intervention programs targeting working class women in Jamaica.

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