0438344 - EKÚ 2015 RIV GB eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Hsieh, Ch.-S. - Kovářík, Jaromír - Logan, T.
How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex?
Scientific Reports. Roč. 4, Article number 7540 (2014), s. 1-8. ISSN 2045-2322. E-ISSN 2045-2322
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-22044S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985998
Klíčová slova: HIV infections * sexually transmitted infections * sexual networks
Kód oboru RIV: FN - Epidemiologie, infek. nemoci a klin. imunologie
Impakt faktor: 5.578, rok: 2014 ; AIS: 2.075, rok: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07540

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 mobility in the transmission of STIs in commercial sexual networks.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0241762