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cajgh-31	Zabrocki, Christopher; Weine, Stevan; Chen, Stephanie; Brajkovic, Ivana; Bahromov, Mahbat; Loue, Sana; Jonbekov, Jonbek; Shoakova, Farzona	Socio-Structural Barriers, Protective Factors, and HIV Risk Among Central-Asian Female Migrants in Moscow	2013		.htm	text/html	5320	307	58	Away from their home countries’ traditional cultures that prohibit women from engaging in non-marital sexual relations, female migrants may be more sexually active with more partners.6-9 In Moscow female migrants face greater difficulties with legal status than male migrants.10,11 These difficulties can increase their vulnerability to exploitation, reduce their access to services, and lead to higher STI and HIV.12-14 Illegal status may confine female migrants to unregistered and low-wage positions.15 To survive, women often turn to formal sex work or to transactional sex, resulting in greater sexual risk for HIV.16-18 Female migrants from developing countries often have limited HIV knowledge, may associate condoms with promiscuity, and may avoid condom use with regular sexual partners.19-24 On the other hand, home country religion, cultural values of abstinence, and having friends not engaged in sexual risk behavior may be protective factors for HIV risk.25-27 Respect for parents’ beliefs and values and having plans for the future have been found to be protective against pre-marital sex.28 The WHO has shifted the emphasis of preventative health care with migrants from a focus on individual behavior to considering the social determinants of health.29 However, HIV risk among the growing number of female labor migrants globally, is presently under-investigated.30 There is a need for scientific investigations of female migrants that build knowledge on the social determinants of health and that could help to inform the development of HIV prevention for female labor migrants.	cache/cajgh-31.htm	txt/cajgh-31.txt