Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This cross-sectional study had a convenience sample selected in May We interviewed , mostly black, middle-aged, poor women with comorbidities.
Only 26 In addition to gender, race, and class inequalities, these women suffer both from a higher risk of contracting COVID due to their working conditions and from the subsequent worsening of that disease due to age and lack of vaccination.
As of July 4, , Brazil has had approximately In addition to these and according to social determinants of health, this vaccination plan also included highly socially vulnerable populations, but fail to include persons engaged in prostitution under the same criteria. Informed consent forms were signed by all participants before research began.
Interviews were conducted individually and outdoors, respecting social distancing protocols. Questions on sociodemographic data, work and behavior during the pandemic, prevention and exposure factors to SARS-CoV-2, comorbidities, medication, close contact with someone infected during the transmission period, whether they showed symptoms or tested positive for COVID, hospitalization, post-COVID complications, and vaccination status were included in our questionnaire.
Descriptive statistical analyses were described by means and standard deviations, and categorical variables, by absolute and relative frequencies. We evaluated a total of women with a mean age of Of the total number of interviewees, Regarding working habits, Table 1 provides additional details. In total, women In our sample, women Of the women interviewed, 23 Of the total number of participants in our study, Among those who already met vaccination criteria at the time of the interview, 60 Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, women engaged in prostitution have been unable to interrupt face-to-face services to conform to sanitary measures 1.
