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Poverty of Opportunity Forcing Women Into Prostitution—A Qualitative Study in Pakistan

Mohsin Saeed Khan Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Eva Johansson Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, Sweden
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Shakila Zaman Institute of Public Health, Lahore, Pakistan
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Magnus Unemo National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
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Naveed I. Rahat Department of Anthroplogy, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, Sweden
Pages 365-383 | Received 05 May 2009, Accepted 18 Sep 2009, Published online: 01 Mar 2010

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Emily Nyariki, Rhoda Wanjiru, Pooja Shah, Mary Kungu, Hellen Babu, Helen A. Weiss, Janet Seeley, Joshua Kimani & Tara S. Beattie. (2023) Managing motherhood – the experiences of female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya. Culture, Health & Sexuality 25:9, pages 1230-1243.
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