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She said at least 70,000 of the city’s 500,000 residents are considered to be in a high-risk group for the disease.
Sri
said in the past, the red-light district had been concentrated in one
area. But, she said, new prostitution centers had recently sprouted up
across a broad area, such as a burgeoning red light district in the
northern part of the city, known as Jalak Alley in Gilingan.
Sri
said prostitution was rife across the city, with many places using
legitimate businesses as a front. She said many massage parlors,
billiard halls and brothels operating in private homes had cropped up.
Sri said the decentralized sex trade was far more difficult for
authorities to monitor and was a barrier for the city’s efforts, such
as ensuring condoms are readily available, to fight the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
The data were contained in the 2009 AIDS epidemic update, which revealed that HIV played a significant factor in deaths to women during childbirth. Using South African data, about 50,000 maternal deaths were associated with HIV in 2008.
‘Aids isolation must end … half of all maternal deaths in Botswana and South Africa are due to HIV,’ said Sidibe.
The report said the face of the Aids epidemic was changing and that prevention efforts were not keeping pace with the shift. Daniel Halperin, an Aids expert at Harvard University, said it was good news the rate of new infections was dropping and that access to Aids drugs was helping to cut the death rate.
Earlier this year, the UN announced there are now 4million people on lifesaving Aids drugs worldwide, a 10-fold increase in five years. HIV transmission in Asia in the past was mainly through prostitution and injecting drug use, but now, it is increasingly affecting heterosexual couples.
… Sex workers are highly vulnerable to HIV-AIDS. It’s our responsibility to create awareness about it among sex workers and provide necessary medical services to those who are already infected by HIV-AIDS,” Helen, who heads the Swati Mahila Sangha, a sex workers’ collective in Bangalore, told IANS Monday on the eve of World AIDS Day.
“Today we have 7,500 members and our organisation has worked with around 16,000 sex workers across the city. Apart from creating awareness about HIV-AIDS among sex workers, we are also trying to fight the social stigma attached to sex workers and to HIV-AIDS,” she said.
Karnataka has around 245,000 HIV infected people.
Soumya, another HIV-AIDS activist who is a transgender and a sex worker, is also trying to create awareness among sexual minorities about HIV-AIDS through Samara, an organisation for sexual minorities.
… The fence will only be 4 feet high,” Ramsey said.
“The lower 2 feet will be solid wood, but the higher part is open grid, so people are free to pick from the trees the peaches and apples and blueberries and raspberries, and eat freely.”
Despite the fence and the gate, which will close at 5 p.m., the park’s current users won’t be fenced out, Ramsey said.
Two spots outside the fence in Union Plaza park will be set aside for residents to continue to enjoy their games. Permanent tables and bench seats will be installed on corner plazas at 34th and Peralta streets and Haven and 34th streets. To address neighbors’ concerns, both corners will be lighted at night to discourage illicit behavior such as loitering, drug dealing and prostitution.
