Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health

Abstract

Global transport networks and infectious disease spread: A theoretical application of discrete choice model for decision making for trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation

Jacob Oluwoye

Transportation deals with the movement of people and goods, using various means of locomotion (walking, bicycles, buses, trams, trains, ferries, taxis, motor cars, trucks, ships, aircraft, pipelines) on transport networks (roads, rails, waterways, airways) which have terminals (parking areas, depots, stations, ports and airports) and transfer points (bus stops, stations, goods yards). Disease-causing organisms can now move faster, further and in greater numbers than it before. In recent years, human trafficking has been identified as a form of modern slavery, as a threat to human security, and as one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. Human trafficking may be a humanitarian drawback of a worldwide scale, however quantitative analysis on the problem barely exists and investigating and controlling infectious diseases is a complex enterprise that has long been assisted by mathematical modeling. Furthermore, the prevalence of human trafficking is difficult to measure; however, the number of international organizations has estimated that traffickers exploit a majority of human trafficking victims without moving them from one country to another. From the on top of discussions, one will try an act of enlisting and transportation of persons inside or across borders. HIV/AIDS programs area unit advanced as a result of the illness is advanced. It discrete-choice modeling of prevalence and predictors of HIV risk behaviors among trafficking victims for Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE). The paper concludes that the theoretical application may help policymakers to better target anti-trafficking efforts.  

Published Date: 2020-08-28;