Situations of health vulnerabilities experienced by sex workers in times of covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT

Objective: To reflect on the situations of health vulnerabilities experienced by sex workers during the pandemic resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Method: This is a reflective study, based on the conceptual theoretical framework of vulnerability in four dimensions Ontological, epidemiological, symbolic and political-programmatic. Result: The health of sex workers, in the daily experience of sexual work, has been a challenge for governments among all groups associated with stigmas and vulnerable populations, precisely because they are socially marginalized. This is important for understanding this phenomenon in the midst of the financial, economic and health crisis that people from different nations suffer before the progress of SARS-CoV-2. Conclusion: The situations of health vulnerability resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 infection that expose sex workers are consolidated, mainly, by the absence of the State in the social-legal protection and in the guarantee of human rights, so that these women acquire conditions of coping and prevention. © 2021 Universidade Federal da Bahia. All rights reserved.