How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F14%3A00438344" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/14:00438344 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07540" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07540</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07540" target="_blank" >10.1038/srep07540</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex?
Original language description
Sex workers are traditionally considered important vectors of transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STI). The role of clients is commonly overlooked, partially due to the lack of evidence on clients' position in the sexual network created by commercial sex. Contrasting the diffusion importance of sex workers and their clients in the map of their sexual encounters in twoWeb-mediated communities, we find that from diffusion perspective, clients are as important as sex workers. Their diffusion importance is closely linked to the geography of the sexual encounters: as a result of different movement patterns, travelling clients shorten network distances between distant network neighborhoods and thus facilitate contagion among them more than sex workers, and find themselves more often in the core of the network by which they could contribute to the persistence of STIs in the community. These findings position clients into the set of the key actors and highlight the role of human m
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-22044S" target="_blank" >GA14-22044S: Learning and Networks</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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