Mobility and sex work: why, where, when? A typology of female-sex-worker mobility in Zimbabwe.

Calum Davey ORCID logo; Jeffrey Dirawo; Phillis Mushati; Sitholubuhle Magutshwa; James R Hargreaves ORCID logo; Frances M Cowan; (2018) Mobility and sex work: why, where, when? A typology of female-sex-worker mobility in Zimbabwe. Social science & medicine (1982), 220. pp. 322-330. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.027
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Sex-worker mobility may have implications for health and access to care but has not been described in sub-Saharan Africa. We described sex-worker mobility in Zimbabwe and a mobility typology using data from 2591 and 2839 female sex workers in 14 sites from 2013 and 2016. We used latent class analysis to identify a typology of mobile sex workers. More women travelled for work in 2016 (59%) than in 2013 (27%), usually to find clients with more money (57% of the journeys), spending a median of 21 (2013) and 24 (2016) days away. A five-class mixture model best fitted the data, with 39% women in an infrequent work-mobility class, 21% in a domestic-high-mobility class, 16% in an international-high-mobility class, 16% in an infrequent opportunistic-non-work-mobility class, and 7% who travel with clients. More-mobile classes were better educated; risk behaviours differed by class. Mobility is increasing among sex worker in Zimbabwe, multi-faceted, and not explained by other vulnerabilities.


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