Participatory geographic mapping and activity space diaries: innovative data collection methods for understanding environmental risk exposures among female sex workers in a low-to middle-income country

Table 1 Identified categories of risk spaces and characteristics in Santo Domingo from the perspective of FSWs living with HIV (N = 51)

Perceived risk environments	Risk characteristics	Percent of perceived risk environments with the identified risk characteristic
Neighborhoods (N = 62)	Drugs (use, selling, trafficking)	77.42%
	Violence and crime	59.68%
	Heavy policing	35.48%
	Sex work	19.35%
	Poverty	46.77%
Specific establishments (N = 93)^a
	Drugs (use, selling, trafficking)	26.88%
	Violence and crime	8.60%
	Heavy Policing	8.60%
	Sex Work	84.95%
	Poverty	1.08%
Common streets (N = 8)^b
	Drugs (use, selling, trafficking)	50.00%
	Violence and crime	25.00%
	Heavy policing	100.00%
	Sex work	87.50%
	Poverty	25.00%

^aEstablishments included hotels, bars/discos, colmados (corner stores that sell alcohol and are frequent gathering spaces), markets, parks, street intersections, drug markets, and sex work venues as listed by participants
^bCommon streets included highways and central avenues
Notes. FSWs female sex workers; % based on non-missing data (< 10% missing on any variable)