Saturday, November 29, 2008

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

Indian sex workers prepare for a night's work at their home inside the redlight area of Kamathipura in Mumbai, on November 25. The Indian government currently estimates that between two million and 3.1 million people are living with HIV-AIDS, sharply down on previous calculations that triggered fears of a South Africa-style epidemic.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)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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