Advanced search

Authors whose works are in public domain in at least one jurisdiction

List of works by Kate Shannon

"I walked into the industry for survival and came out of a closet": How gender and sexual identities shape sex work experiences among men, two spirit, and trans people in Vancouver

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

'It's more about the heroin': injection drug users' response to an overdose warning campaign in a Canadian setting.

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

'They won't change it back in their heads that we're trash': the intersection of sex work-related stigma and evolving policing strategies

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

A comprehensive review of HIV/STI prevention and sexual and reproductive health services among sex Workers in Conflict-Affected Settings: call for an evidence- and rights-based approach in the humanitarian response

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

A narrative analysis of the birth stories of early-age mothers

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

A peer-led mobile outreach program and increased utilization of detoxification and residential drug treatment among female sex workers who use drugs in a Canadian setting

scientific article published on August 21, 2010

A qualitative study of transgender individuals' experiences in residential addiction treatment settings: stigma and inclusivity

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

A systematic review of the correlates of violence against sex workers

scientific article

Access and utilization of HIV treatment and services among women sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

scientific article

After abduction: exploring access to reintegration programs and mental health status among young female abductees in Northern Uganda

scientific article

An action agenda for HIV and sex workers.

scientific article

Association of highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage, population viral load, and yearly new HIV diagnoses in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based study

scientific article

Associations between childhood maltreatment and sex work in a cohort of drug-using youth

scientific article

Barriers and facilitators to hepatitis B vaccination among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Implications for integrated HIV, STI, and viral hepatitis services

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Barriers to Cervical Screening Among Sex Workers in Vancouver

scientific article

Barriers to Viral Suppression Among Female Sex Workers: Role of Structural and Intimate Partner Dynamics

scientific article published on September 2016

Burden and correlates of mental health diagnoses among sex workers in an urban setting

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Client demands for unsafe sex: the socioeconomic risk environment for HIV among street and off-street sex workers

scientific article published on August 2013

Cohort Profile: HAART Observational Medical Evaluation and Research (HOMER) cohort

scientific article

Comment on "Hepatitis C and the Sex Trade".

scientific article published on 28 April 2016

Community mapping of sex work criminalization and violence: impacts on HIV treatment interruptions among marginalized women living with HIV in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on January 2017

Community-based HIV prevention research among substance-using women in survival sex work: the Maka Project Partnership

scientific article

Complexities of short-term mobility for sex work and migration among sex workers: violence and sexual risks, barriers to care, and enhanced social and economic opportunities

scientific article

Condom use within non-commercial partnerships of female sex workers in southern India

scientific article

Correlates of Suicidality Among A Community-Based Cohort of Women Sex Workers: The Protective Effect of Social Cohesion

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Criminal law, sex work, HIV: need for multi-level research

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Criminalization of HIV non-disclosure: Narratives from young men living in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Criminalizing Sex Work Clients and Rushed Negotiations among Sex Workers Who Use Drugs in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Crystal methamphetamine use among female street-based sex workers: Moving beyond individual-focused interventions

scientific article

Decisions, decisions: the importance of condom use decision making among HIV sero-discordant couples in a prospective cohort study in Uganda

scientific article

Does psychedelic drug use reduce risk of suicidality? Evidence from a longitudinal community-based cohort of marginalised women in a Canadian setting

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Dual sexual and drug-related predictors of hepatitis C incidence among sex workers in a Canadian setting: gaps and opportunities for scale-up of hepatitis C virus prevention, treatment, and care

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

Early sex work initiation independently elevates odds of HIV infection and police arrest among adult sex workers in a Canadian setting

scientific article

Enhancing benefits or increasing harms: community responses for HIV among men who have sex with men, transgender women, female sex workers, and people who inject drugs

scientific article published on August 2014

Ethics and the treatment as prevention strategy among transgender women living with HIV in Argentina

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Expanded highly active antiretroviral therapy coverage among HIV-positive drug users to improve individual and public health outcomes

scientific article

Expansion of HAART coverage is associated with sustained decreases in HIV/AIDS morbidity, mortality and HIV transmission: the "HIV Treatment as Prevention" experience in a Canadian setting

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Experiences of Trans Women and Two-Spirit Persons Accessing Women-Specific Health and Housing Services in a Downtown Neighborhood of Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

Exploring pathways from violence and HIV disclosure without consent to depression, social support, and HIV medication self-efficacy among women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Factors associated with difficulty accessing crack cocaine pipes in a Canadian setting

scientific article published on March 30, 2012

Family Separation and Maternal Self-rated Health: Evidence from a Prospective Cohort of Marginalized Mothers in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Fears of an influx of sex workers to major sporting events are unfounded

scientific article published on 03 September 2012

Food Insecurity Increases HIV Risk Among Young Sex Workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Gaps in the hepatitis C continuum of care among sex workers in Vancouver, British Columbia: Implications for voluntary hepatitis C virus testing, treatment and care

scientific article

Gendered HIV risk patterns among polygynous sero-discordant couples in Uganda

scientific article

Gendered sexual risk patterns and polygamy among HIV sero-discordant couples in Uganda.

scientific article published on 25 May 2012

Generational sex work and HIV risk among Indigenous women in a street-based urban Canadian setting

scientific article

Global epidemiology of HIV among female sex workers: influence of structural determinants.

scientific article

HIV and HCV prevalence and gender-specific risk profiles of crack cocaine smokers and dual users of injection drugs.

scientific article published in January 2008

HIV infection among female sex workers in concentrated and high prevalence epidemics: why a structural determinants framework is needed

scientific article

HIV viral load trajectories of women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Harms of Workplace Inspections for Im/Migrant Sex Workers in In-Call Establishments: Enhanced Barriers to Health Access in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Hepatitis C testing in Canada: don't leave baby boomers behind

scientific article published in June 2017

High burden of previously undiagnosed HIV infections and gaps in HIV care cascade for conflict-affected female sex workers in northern Uganda

scientific article published on 11 November 2018

High lifetime pregnancy and low contraceptive usage among sex workers who use drugs- an unmet reproductive health need

scientific article

High prevalence and partner correlates of physical and sexual violence by intimate partners among street and off-street sex workers

scientific article

High rates of Unintended Pregnancies among Young Women Sex Workers in Conflict-affected Northern Uganda: The Social Contexts of Brothels/Lodges and Substance Use.

scientific article

Homelessness among a cohort of women in street-based sex work: the need for safer environment interventions.

scientific article

Impacts of im/migration experience on work stress among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Incarceration and exposure to internally displaced persons camps associated with reproductive rights abuses among sex workers in northern Uganda

scientific article published on 9 February 2017

Income generating activities of people who inject drugs.

scientific article

Increased burden of suicidality among young street-involved sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Individual and structural vulnerability among female youth who exchange sex for survival.

scientific article

Injection drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting.

scientific article

Injection drug users' involvement in drug dealing in the downtown eastside of Vancouver: social organization and systemic violence

scientific article published on 08 May 2013

International migration from non-endemic settings as a protective factor for HIV/STI risk among female sex workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article

Interpersonal and structural contexts of intimate partner violence among female sex workers in conflict-affected northern Uganda

scientific article

Interpersonal violence and other social-structural barriers associated with needing HIV treatment support for women living with HIV

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Mapping Workplace Neighborhood Mobility Among Sex Workers in an Urban Canadian Setting: Results of a Community-Based Spatial Epidemiological Study From 2010-2016

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Negotiating Violence in the Context of Transphobia and Criminalization: The Experiences of Trans Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Negotiating place and gendered violence in Canada's largest open drug scene

scientific article

Negotiating safety and sexual risk reduction with clients in unsanctioned safer indoor sex work environments: a qualitative study

scientific article

Nonadherence increases the risk of hospitalization among HIV-infected antiretroviral naive patients started on HAART.

scientific article

Nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy among a community with endemic rates of injection drug use.

scientific article

Occupational stigma as a primary barrier to health care for street-based sex workers in Canada

scientific article

Overdose among mothers: The association between child removal and unintentional drug overdose in a longitudinal cohort of marginalised women in Canada

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Perspectives on Sex Work

Physical and Sexual Violence Affecting Female Sex Workers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Prevalence, and the Relationship with the Work Environment, HIV, and Access to Health Services

scientific article

Piloting a 'spatial isolation' index: the built environment and sexual and drug use risks to sex workers

scientific article

Piloting a peer-driven intervention model to increase access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy and HIV care among street-entrenched HIV-positive women in Vancouver.

scientific article

Police confrontations among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting

scientific article

Police-related barriers to harm reduction linked to non-fatal overdose amongst sex workers who use drugs: Results of a community-based cohort in Metro Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Policing the epidemic: High burden of workplace violence among female sex workers in conflict-affected northern Uganda

scientific article

Positive sexuality: HIV disclosure, gender, violence and the law-A qualitative study

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Potential community and public health impacts of medically supervised safer smoking facilities for crack cocaine users

scientific article

Pregnancy intentions among female sex workers: recognising their rights and wants as mothers

scientific article

Prevalence and correlates of nonmedical prescription opioid use among a cohort of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article

Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers.

scientific article

Preventing sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBIs) among sex workers: a critical review of the evidence on determinants and interventions in high-income countries

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Realizing Women Living with HIV's Reproductive Rights in the Era of ART: The Negative Impact of Non-consensual HIV Disclosure on Pregnancy Decisions Amongst Women Living with HIV in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Recent Incarceration as a Primary Barrier to Virologic Suppression Among Women Living with HIV: Results from a Longitudinal Community-Based Cohort in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Recent im/migration to Canada linked to unmet health needs among sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: Findings of a longitudinal study

scientific article

Reconsidering the impact of conflict on HIV infection among women in the era of antiretroviral treatment scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa: a gender lens

scientific article

Safety and danger in downtown Vancouver: understandings of place among young people entrenched in an urban drug scene

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Seeking refuge from violence in street-based drug scenes: women's experiences in North America's first supervised injection facility

scientific article

Severe food insecurity is associated with elevated unprotected sex among HIV-seropositive injection drug users independent of HAART use

scientific article published on October 23, 2011

Sex Work and Motherhood: Social and Structural Barriers to Health and Social Services for Pregnant and Parenting Street and Off-Street Sex Workers

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Sex trade involvement is associated with elevated HIV incidence among injection drug users in Vancouver

article

Sex work and HIV incidence among people who inject drugs

scientific article

Sex work and the public health impacts of the 2010 Olympic Games: Table 1

scientific article published on March 21, 2012

Sex workers' experiences and occupational conditions post-implementation of end-demand criminalization in Metro Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Sex-for-Crack exchanges: associations with risky sexual and drug use niches in an urban Canadian city

scientific article

Sexual and drug-related vulnerabilities for HIV infection among women engaged in survival sex work in Vancouver, Canada.

scientific article published in November 2007

Sexual relationship power and intimate partner violence among sex workers with non-commercial intimate partners in a Canadian setting

scientific article

Sexuality and sex work

Social Cohesion Among Sex Workers and Client Condom Refusal in a Canadian Setting: Implications for Structural and Community-Led Interventions

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Social and structural factors increase inconsistent condom use by sex workers' one-time and regular clients in Northern Uganda

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk of drug-using women in survival sex work.

scientific article published on 21 December 2007

Structural Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Sex Workers Living with HIV: Findings of a Longitudinal Study in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article

Structural Determinants of Health among Im/Migrants in the Indoor Sex Industry: Experiences of Workers and Managers/Owners in Metropolitan Vancouver

scientific article

Structural Violence and Structural Vulnerability Within the Risk Environment: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives for a Social Epidemiology of HIV Risk Among Injection Drug Users and Sex Workers

article

Structural and environmental barriers to condom use negotiation with clients among female sex workers: implications for HIV-prevention strategies and policy

article

Structural barriers to condom access in a community-based cohort of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada: influence of policing, violence and end-demand criminalisation

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

Structural determinants of dual contraceptive use among female sex workers in Gulu, northern Uganda

scientific article

Structural determinants of inconsistent condom use with clients among migrant sex workers: findings of longitudinal research in an urban canadian setting

scientific article published on June 2015

Suboptimal plasma HIV-1 RNA suppression and adherence among sex workers who use illicit drugs in a Canadian setting: an observational cohort study

scientific article

Supporting Southern-led Research: Implications for North—South Research Partnerships

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Survival sex work and increased HIV risk among sexual minority street-involved youth

scientific article published on April 2010

Survival sex work involvement among street-involved youth who use drugs in a Canadian setting

scientific article

Survival sex work involvement as a primary risk factor for hepatitis C virus acquisition in drug-using youths in a canadian setting

scientific article

THE IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION AND GENTRIFICATION ON AN OUTDOOR TRANS SEX WORK ENVIRONMENT: VIOLENCE, DISPLACEMENT AND POLICING.

scientific article

The 'stolen generations' of mothers and daughters: child apprehension and enhanced HIV vulnerabilities for sex workers of Aboriginal ancestry

scientific article

The Effect of Violence and Intersecting Structural Inequities on High Rates of Food Insecurity among Marginalized Sex Workers in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

The Impacts of Intersecting Stigmas on Health and Housing Experiences of Queer Women Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

The Loss of Boystown and Transition to Online Sex Work: Strategies and Barriers to Increase Safety Among Men Sex Workers and Clients of Men.

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

The global response and unmet actions for HIV and sex workers

scientific article published in The Lancet

The hypocrisy of Canada's prostitution legislation

scientific article

The impact of end-demand legislation on sex workers' access to health and sex worker-led services: A community-based prospective cohort study in Canada

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

The impact of unregulated single room occupancy hotels on the health status of illicit drug users in Vancouver

article

The moderating effect of psychedelics on the prospective relationship between prescription opioid use and suicide risk among marginalized women

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

The politics and policies of HIV prevention in sex work

scientific article published on March 15, 2012

The relationship between social, policy and physical venue features and social cohesion on condom use for pregnancy prevention among sex workers: a safer indoor work environment scale

scientific article

The role of dyad-level factors in shaping sexual and drug-related HIV/STI risks among sex workers with intimate partners

scientific article

The role of sex work laws and stigmas in increasing HIV risks among sex workers

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Third Parties (Venue Owners, Managers, Security, etc.) and Access to Occupational Health and Safety Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Setting: 2010-2016

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Underreporting of Violence to Police among Women Sex Workers in Canada: Amplified Inequities for Im/migrant and In-Call Workers Prior to and Following End-Demand Legislation

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Universal Coverage without Universal Access: Institutional Barriers to Health Care among Women Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article

Uptake of a women-only, sex-work-specific drop-in center and links with sexual and reproductive health care for sex workers

scientific article

Urban gentrification and declining access to HIV/STI, sexual health, and outreach services amongst women sex workers between 2010-2014: Results of a community-based longitudinal cohort

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Use of injectable hormonal contraception and HSV-2 acquisition in a cohort of female sex workers in Vancouver, Canada

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Violence and HIV risk among female sex workers in Southern India.

scientific article published in February 2013

Violence and other social structural factors linked to incarceration for women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver: need for trauma-informed HIV care in prisons and post-Release

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Violence prevention and municipal licensing of indoor sex work venues in the Greater Vancouver Area: narratives of migrant sex workers, managers and business owners.

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Violence, Condom Negotiation, and HIV/STI Risk Among Sex Workers

scientific article published on August 4, 2010

Violence, trauma and living with HIV: Longitudinal predictors of initiating crystal methamphetamine injection among sex workers

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

War-Related Abduction and History of Incarceration Linked to High Burden of HIV Among Female Sex Workers in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Women Who Use Drugs and Have Sex with Women in a Canadian Setting: Barriers to Treatment Enrollment and Exposure to Violence and Homelessness

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Workplace violence among female sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada: does client-targeted policing increase safety?

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Youth, violence and non-injection drug use: nexus of vulnerabilities among lesbian and bisexual sex workers

scientific article

“People Knew They Could Come Here to Get Help”: An Ethnographic Study of Assisted Injection Practices at a Peer-Run ‘Unsanctioned’ Supervised Drug Consumption Room in a Canadian Setting

scientific article published on March 1, 2014