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Amphetamine-type stimulant use and HIV/STI risk behaviour among young female sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Maher, L; Phlong, P; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Keo, S; Stein, E; Couture, MC; Page, KPublished 2011-01-01Background: Use of amphetamine-type substances (ATS) has been linked to increased risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) worldwide. In Cambodia, recent ATS use is independently associated with incident ...Open AccessArticle -
At the intersection of marginalised identities: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people’s experiences of injecting drug use and hepatitis C seroconversion
Deacon, R; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Treloar, C; Maher, LPublished 2013-01-01While the levels of injecting drug use among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations are high we know little about their experiences of injecting drugs or living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. ...Open AccessArticle -
Condom negotiation across different relationship types by young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Maher, L; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Phlong, P; Couture, MC; Phal, S; Bates, A; Sansothy, N; Page, KPublished 2013-01-01Cambodia’s 100% Condom Use Programme is credited with an increase in consistent condom use in commercial sexual interactions and a decrease in HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSWs). There has been little improvement ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicting rights: How the prohibition of human trafficking and sexual exploitation infringes the right to health of female sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Maher, L; Dixon, C; Phlong, P; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Stein, Ellen; Page, KPublished 2015-06-11While repressive laws and policies in relation to sex work have the potential to undermine HIV prevention efforts, empirical research on their interface has been lacking. In 2008, Cambodia introduced anti-trafficking ...Open AccessArticle -
Enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people’s resilience to blood borne and sexually transmitted infections: Findings from a community-based participatory research project
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Kaldor, J; Maher, LPublished 2009-01-01Issue addressed: Health services are fundamental to reducing the burden of blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) in Indigenous communities. However, we know very little about young Indigenous people’s ...Open AccessArticle -
Indigenous Resiliency Project Participatory Action Research Component: A report on the Research Training and Development Workshop, Townsville, February 2008
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Erick, W; Brockmal, D; Scott, R; Maher, LPublished 2008-01-01The Indigenous Resiliency Project proposes to build capacity in Indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada to conduct investigations into the factors that may support Indigenous people in responding ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
The Indigenous Resiliency Project: A worked example of community-based participatory research
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Maher, LPublished 2009-01-01Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is often cited as a suitable methodological approach for academic researchers wanting to work collaboratively with Indigenous communities. This paper describes the Indigenous ...Open AccessArticle -
Learning from the past: young Indigenous people’s accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Olsen, A; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Kaldor, J; Maher, LPublished 2011-01-01The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood-borne viral and ...Open AccessArticle -
Selling sex in unsafe spaces: Sex work risk environments in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Maher, L; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Phlong, P; Couture, MC; Stein, E; Evans, J; Cockroft, M; Sansothy, N; Nemoto, T; Page, KPublished 2011-01-01Background The risk environment framework provides a valuable but under-utilised heuristic for understanding environmental vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers. Brothels ...Open AccessArticle -
Sex work and HIV in Cambodia: trajectories of risk and disease in two cohorts of high-risk young women in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Page, K; Stein, E; Sansothy, N; Evans, J; Couture, MC; Sichan, K; Cockroft, M; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Phlong, P; Kaldor, J; Maher, LPublished 2013-01-01Objectives HIV prevalence among Cambodian female sex workers (FSW) is among the highest in Southeast Asia. We describe HIV prevalence and associated risk exposures in FSW sampled serially in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Young ...Open AccessArticle -
Sexual health through the eyes of Indigenous youth: Community-based participatory research with young Indigenous people in Townsville
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Maher, L; Olsen, APublished 2009-01-01The project had the following aims: 1. Build the capacity of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in research practice; 2. Identify, assess and enhance the blood borne viral and sexually transmitted infection ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Sexual risk and health care seeking behaviour in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in north Queensland
Scott, R; Foster, R; Oliver, L; Olsen, A; Mooney-Somers, Julie; Mathers, B; Micallef, J; Kaldor, J; Maher, LPublished 2014-10-28Background: Compared to non-Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI). We sought to identify the sexual risk and health care seeking ...Open AccessArticle -
“Through our eyes: How Indigenous young people protect themselves against sexually transmitted and blood borne infections. [Community Poster]
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Olsen, A; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Maher, LPublished 2010-01-01Young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives.Open AccessOther -
Through our eyes: Why Indigenous young people look after their health and protect themselves from sexually transmitted and blood borne infections. [Community Poster]
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Olsen, A; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Maher, LPublished 2010-01-01Open AccessOther -
Young Indigenous Australians’ sexually transmitted infection prevention practices: A Community-based Participatory Research project
Mooney-Somers, Julie; Olsen, A; Erick, W; Scott, R; Akee, A; Maher, LPublished 2012-01-01National surveillance data indicate marked differences between Indigenous and other Australians in the prevalence of many sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Young Indigenous people bear a particularly high burden of ...Open AccessArticle
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