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Fifty-nine percent of clients reported always using condoms with FSWs, Clients had a high number of partners; Living in Gonaives, not being Protestant, being employed, and having tried marijuana were associated with syphilis infection.
Older clients, residents of Gonaives and Voodoo practitioners were more likely to be infected with HSV These men had many sex partners and condom use differed, depending on the category of partner. Clients of FSWs likely act as a bridge population, facilitating the spread of STI throughout the general population in Haiti, and should be targeted in prevention programs.
