Louise Mutricy-Hureau, Amandine Pisoni, Martha Suarez-Mutis, Amanda Figueira da Silva, Yann Lambert, Pauline Mespoulhe, Audrey Godin, Marie-Claire Parriault, Astrid Van Melle, Emilie Mosnier, Mélanie Gaillet, Céline Michaud, Roxane Schaub, Muriel Galindo, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher, Stephen Vreden, Edouard Tuaillon, Maylis Douine
OBJECTIVES: Common representations of the world of gold mining-especially illegal-are usually negative: the activity conjures up images of drug trafficking, human exploitation, the sex trade, environmental destruction, and infectious diseases, in particular sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The aim of the present article is to describe the levels of risk behaviors such as transactional sex, multiple sexual partners, and the frequency of condom use, addictive substance consumption, and the prevalence of STIs among the population of illegal gold miners in French Guiana (FG), a French overseas entity in Amazonia, in order to guide potential interventions...
2022: PloS One