Exposed and unprotected: Sex worker vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 health emergency in Mozambique.
Measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 have been shown to disproportionately affect the marginalised groups in our societies. We studied the impacts of national restrictions on young adult sex workers in Mozambique, and actions at individual, governmental and civil society level to mitigate agai...
| Publicado en: | Global Public Health Vol. 17; no. 12; pp. 3568 - 3583 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2022
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