Table 4. Risky behaviors among sex workers in the MENA region.

	Risky Behaviors Among Sex Workers
	Iran
Injecting Drugs	A total of 73.8% reported a history of any drug use. Of these, 63.2% were active drug users. (Sajadi et al. 2013) 60% used drugs and 2.5% used them intravenously (Tehrani et al. 2008) The vast majority (96.8%) had ever used drugs while injection was reported by 14.5% (Mirzazadeh et al. 2013)
Married	Ever being married: 83.2% (Sajadi et al. 2013) Currently married: 35.8% (Sajadi et al. 2013) Ever being married: 81.0% (Mirzazadeh et al. 2013) Currently married: 28.5% (Mirzazadeh et al. 2013)
No. of Clients	In last seven days: 3.1 (Sajadi et al. 2013) In last seven days: 3.4 (Mirzazadeh et al. 2013)
Additional Income	36.5% (Sajadi et al. 2013)
	Egypt
Injecting Drugs	50% used drugs and 6% injected drugs in the 12 months preceding the survey (FHI/MOH Egypt 2010)
Married	Ever being married: 89% (FHI/MOH Egypt 2010) Currently married: 45.5% (FHI/MOH Egypt 2010)
	Syria
Injecting Drugs	11% used drugs (Kobeissi 2014)
Married	Ever being married: 86% (Kobeissi 2014)
Forced Sex	35.8% (Kobeissi 2014)
No. of Clients	In last seven days: 4.8 (Kobeissi 2014)
	Lebanon
Injecting Drugs	0 (Mahfoud et al. 2010)
Married	Ever being married: 60% (Mahfoud et al. 2010) Currently married: 10% (Mahfoud et al. 2010)
No. of Clients	In last months: 96% had five or more clients (Mahfoud et al. 2010) Clients per year for hammer sex workers: 1,015 (median ¼ 1,095) (Aunon et al. 2015) Clients per year for escorts: 343 (median ¼ 313) (Aunon et al. 2015)
Additional Income	Most of male sex workers from the hammam relied on sex work as their only source of income whereas more than one half of the escorts also had another income generating activity (Aunon et al. 2015)
	Libya
Injecting Drugs	2.8% (Valadez et al. 2013)
Forced Sex	18.2% (Valadez et al. 2013)