Just returning from the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America in Dallas. I presented new research on "Environmental Change and Risky Sex: Exploring through Livelihoods in Haiti." This paper, collaborative with John Reid-Hresko and Tom Dickinson, makes use of the Demographic and Health Survey for Haiti and we model risky sexual as related to local environmental change. The hypothesis is that, as households have fewer and fewer local natural resources from which to derive livelihoods, members may engage in transactional sex (as documented in other vulnerable settings). We do find that impoverished women in areas of very low natural resource availability are more likely to engage in risky sex as measured by sexual encounters without condoms. We continue to refine the analyses and will send out for peer review during summer months.
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