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Brian Willis, Global Health Promise / February 25, 2017

The New York Times sites Global Health Promise study

Cambodian sex workers waiting for customers at a public park in Phnom Penh.Credit Chor Sokunthea/Reuters
Cambodian sex workers waiting for customers at a public park in Phnom Penh. Credit: Chor Sokunthea/Reuters (published in the New York Times Feb. 20, 2017)

H.I.V. Stalks Prostitutes and Their Children in Cambodia

By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
New York Times
Feb. 20, 2017

Abortion and AIDS are the two most common causes of death among Cambodian female sex workers, and AIDS is the most frequent cause of death among their children, according to a small new study.

Prostitution in poor countries with high H.I.V. rates has lethal consequences not just for women but for their infants, the study found. Mothers engage in riskier sex acts to feed their children, but because they are socially shunned or threatened with arrest, they often cannot get drugs that would prolong their lives or prevent them from infecting their babies.

The study, by investigators at Global Health Promise, a nonprofit based in Portland, Ore., that researches prostitution in poor countries, was an attempt to shed light on a little-studied corner of the AIDS epidemic. The group takes no position on whether prostitution should be legal, its director, Brian Willis, said.

Read the complete article in the New York Times here>>

Filed Under: Press Tagged With: Cambodian female sex workers, Global Health Promise, HIV

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