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Lived experiences of street-based female sex workers in Kathmandu: implications for health intervention strategies

Iccha BasnyatDepartment of Communications & New Media, National University of Singapore, SingaporeCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1040-1051 | Received 02 Sep 2013, Accepted 06 May 2014, Published online: 18 Jun 2014

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Ambar Basu, Nivethitha Ketheeswaran & Brianna R. Cusanno. (2022) Localocentricity, mental health and medical poverty in communication about sex work, HIV and AIDS among trans women engaged in sex work. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:1, pages 125-137.
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Xiaoman Zhao & Iccha Basnyat. (2021) Lived Experiences of Unwed Single Mothers: Exploring the Relationship between Structural Violence and Agency in the Context of Chinese Reproductive Health Discourse. Health Communication 36:3, pages 293-302.
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Iccha Basnyat. (2020) Stigma, agency, and motherhood: Exploring the performativity of dual mother–female sex workers identities in Kathmandu, Nepal. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 13:2, pages 98-113.
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Mohan Jyoti Dutta. (2018) Culture-centered Approach in Addressing Health Disparities: Communication Infrastructures for Subaltern Voices. Communication Methods and Measures 12:4, pages 239-259.
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Hannelore Van Bavel. (2017) Beyond exploitation: towards a nuanced understanding of agency for adolescent female sex workers – evidence from Zanzibar and Morogoro. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:1, pages 76-90.
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Michelle R. Kaufman, Jennifer J. Harman, Lauren M. Menger & Deepti Khati Shrestha. (2016) Understanding the experiences and needs of female commercial sex workers in Kathmandu, Nepal. Health Care for Women International 37:8, pages 872-888.
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Karen R. Katz, Misti McDowell, Laura Johnson & Sultana Aziz. (2016) ‘I won’t be able to go home being pregnant’: sex work and pregnancy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Culture, Health & Sexuality 18:7, pages 756-769.
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Raven Bowen & Vicky Bungay. (2016) Taint: an examination of the lived experiences of stigma and its lingering effects for eight sex industry experts. Culture, Health & Sexuality 18:2, pages 184-197.
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Sharvari Karandikar, Lindsay B. Gezinski, Kaitlin Casassa & Marissa Kaloga. (2023) ‘We Were Not Earning Enough, So We Started This Job:’ Pathways to Navigate Sex Work in Kathmandu, Nepal. The International Journal of Community and Social Development 5:2, pages 203-217.
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Amanda Wilson, Yu Jin, Chenchang Xiao, Hong Yan, Bin Yu, Mengxi Zhai, Jiayu Li & Yuanyuan Wang. (2023) A Confounding Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Sex Workers’ Talk in the City of Kaiyuan, China. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
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Sharvari Karandikar, Kaitlin Casassa, Logan Knight, Megan España & Njeri Kagotho. (2021) “I Am Almost a Breadwinner for My Family”: Exploring the Manifestation of Agency in Sex Workers’ Personal and Professional Contexts. Affilia 37:1, pages 26-41.
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Shaunak Sastry, Megan Stephenson, Patrick Dillon & Andrew Carter. (2021) A Meta-Theoretical Systematic Review of the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication: Toward a Refined, “Nested” Model. Communication Theory 31:3, pages 380-421.
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Brooke S. West, Anne M. Montgomery & Allison R. Ebben. 2021. Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights. Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights 207 230 .
Treena Orchard, Angela Murie, Katherine Salter, Holli-Lynn Elash, Mary Bunch, Cathy Middleton & Cecilia Benoit. (2019) Balance, Capacity, and the Contingencies of Everyday Life: Narrative Etiologies of Health Among Women in Street-Based Sex Work. Qualitative Health Research 30:4, pages 518-529.
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Thomas L. Patterson, Shirley J. Semple, Daniela Abramovitz, Alicia Harvey-Vera, Heather A. Pines, Silvia Verdugo, Colin Depp, David J. Moore, Gustavo Martinez, M. Gudelia Rangel & Steffanie A. Strathdee. (2018) Impact of time perspectives on texting intervention to reduce HIV/STI transmission among female sex workers in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 42:1, pages 111-127.
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Mohan Jyoti Dutta. 2019. Communicating for Social Change. Communicating for Social Change 315 331 .
Iccha Basnyat. (2017) Theorizing the Relationship Between Gender and Health Through a Case Study of Nepalese Street-Based Female Sex Workers. Communication Theory 27:4, pages 388-406.
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Iccha Basnyat. (2016) Structural Violence in Health Care. Qualitative Health Research 27:2, pages 191-203.
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