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Millions of women involved in commercial sex industry are at risk of contracting AIDS or HIV. Many of them were forced to do it or sold into this trade. It happens quite often that women are simply compelled into this work by just poverty and discrimination. Even local police rape them very often and such women are vulnerable to abuse and robbery. Their lives become shorter because of it.

Fortunately, there are examples in India, Thailand, etc. of successful rescues when police raided different brothels and took girls to rehab facilities. It should also be mentioned here that advocates denounce such operations and descourage the upcoming ones.

Another horrible fact is that there are many young girls who get into sex industry and they can’t speak the local language. It is simply impossible for them to negotiate safe sex. As you can see, such situations are desperate and people need help. There are many organizations that make money by sending people abroad. Governments should understand the importance of dealing with the problem of people trafficking and unsafe sex and undertake certain measures. These women deserve better treatment!

Unfortunately every time we talk about a pandemic and a threat to the health of society as a whole, the next thing we’ll be talking about are human rights. No matter how much money is spent to educate the general public about the problem of AIDS people too eager to discriminate against certain layers of population will willingly do it anyway. Despite the fact that AIDS has been around for nearly thirty years, there is still strong prejudice against people who are HIV positive. In the history of abuse we have seen cases were people were expelled from educational establishments, fired unlawfully, tested against their will, had their private information exposed or were even quarantined.

There is strong prejudice that AIDS is closely connected with certain lifestyles such as intravenous drug intake, prostitution, homosexualism or even sexual freedom. People associated with such lifestyles may be discriminated as if they were AIDS carriers even though they may be perfectly healthy. This situation has to be reversed completely. It may be impossible to stop people from hating each other, however it is possible to persecute verbal and physical manifestations of such hatred. Discrimination should be persecuted by all nations of the world. HIV positive people have enough on their hands without it.