Thursday, November 27, 2008

India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)

A member of the Indian hijra community -or commonly called eunuch- waits for costumers at her place in Madanayakana Halli on the outskirts of Bangalore on November 18, 2008. The spread of HIV in India is in part due to unsafe sexual practices among India's 7.7 million truckers who contract the virus after sex with prostitutes, passing it on when they sleep with their unsuspecting wives back home.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.


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