An Encounter with Prostitution

Encounter with prostitution This is a busy afternoon on Saturday afternoon at the Sea-tec shopping center. There, various people walk to big department stores and malls. However, the majority of people entering the shopping mall are young girls. The mall has become the main gathering place for teenagers, and both men and women walk around and show themselves to heterosexuals. I noticed two girls at the food court, and they were waiting in line to buy coffee from Starbucks.

One of the reasons for the spread of HIV in Africa is prostitution. In Accra in Ghana, contact with prostitutes turned out to have caused 84% of new adult HIV infections in adult men. The reason for the spread of HIV from urban environment to rural Africa is that farmers can access sex workers in cities (Ethiopia, etc.). Several studies on prostitution in urban areas of developing countries such as Kenya show that prostitution is a repository of sexually transmitted diseases in the general population.

Prostitution is often associated with the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV (STD). However, empirical data has disputed this. Sometimes the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or other authorized institution conducts research on prostitutes, but what has been done shows that the rate of HIV infection among prostitutes is the same as or lower than that of the population. However, the use of intravenous drugs for prostitutes is very high compared to the general population. Some people think the first two methods are counterproductive. Prohibition of prostitution drives it to the underground, making treatment and monitoring more difficult. The prostitution registration that guilty the country for prostitution does not address the health risks of unregistered prostitutes. The last two measures can be regarded as hazard mitigation policy