Young Girls Suffer In India’s Sex Trade

John Donnelly writes in the August 1, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe (boston.com)

WASHINGTON — A rare glimpse into the harrowing lives of girls and women forced into India’s sex trade found that the youngest among them — girls age 14 or younger — faced another cruel risk from their bondage: 60 percent became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The study, published in today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, reviewed the health records of 287 Nepalese girls and young women who were lured into prostitution in several cities in India from 1997 to 2005. It found that 38 percent of them tested positive for HIV when examined after they were rescued by Maiti Nepal, a nongovernmental organization based in Kathmandu.

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