Social Support, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex Among Female Transnational Migrants to South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the relationship between sexual violence and transactional sex and assess the impact of social support on this relationship among female transnational migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.

Methods

In 2012 we administered a behavioral risk factor survey using respondent-driven sampling to transnational migrant women aged between 16 and 39 years, born outside South Africa, living in Cape Town, and speaking English, Shona, Swahili, Lingala, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, French, or Somali.

Results

Controlling for study covariates, travel-phase sexual violence was positively associated with engagement in transactional sex (adjusted prevalence ratio [APR] = 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.07, 1.77), and social support was shown to be a protective factor

SUBMITTER: Giorgio M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5798469 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature