The effect of mandatory regulatory policies on unsafe sexual behaviours among female sex workers: an evaluation study
Wangjin Liang, Jian Chen, Yaqin Pang, Ruchen Zhang, Xujiao Li, Lanfen Tan, Jianying Liao, Xu Liang · 2026
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Wangjin Liang and co-authors judge a strict policy in 2026 aimed at cutting risky sex work practices in one Chinese city. The 2015 rules in Baise city were treated as a natural test, with data from eleven counties over eleven years. Nearly twenty thousand records tracked knowledge rates, condom use at last paid encounter, and active syphilis rates. Trend breaks around the policy year were checked with care.
Knowledge and condom use rose across the whole span, both before and after the rules. Syphilis rates fell after 2015, yet formal checks found that fall fit chance patterns rather than a policy effect. Robustness tests backed the same verdict. Mandates alone showed no clear link to safer behavior here.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wangjin Liang, Jian Chen, Yaqin Pang, Ruchen Zhang, Xujiao Li, Lanfen Tan, Jianying Liao, Xu Liang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46694 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |