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World Feb 05

The complicated road to recovery for Indian women forced into sex work

By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Simeon Lancaster

World Dec 28

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Movement in Thailand aims to help sex workers earn basic rights and protections

In one of the world's most popular sex tourism destinations, sex workers, nonprofit organizations and politicians are part of a growing movement to decriminalize the industry. It's an attempt to help sex workers earn basic rights and protections. Special correspondent…

By Neha Wadekar

World Apr 26

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Pimps and traffickers prey on vulnerable Rohingya girls

Since the majority of Rohingya refugees are women and girls, many of whom are poor and without a male breadwinner, they are vulnerable to traffickers looking to make fast money in the Bangladeshi sex trade. Special correspondent Tania Rashid and…

By Tania Rashid

World Jul 27

'I was a slave': Nigerian women escape sexual bondage in Italy

CASERTA, Italy — She is 32 and demure, with a poise that belies the image of a woman who was enslaved for five years in a Nigerian prostitution ring on the outskirts of Naples, the raffish Mediterranean port city 22…

By Jason Berry, The GroundTruth Project

Health Aug 30

Gay rights, sex workers and HIV prevention: Uganda's activists answer your questions

We asked for your questions for four activists and human rights workers who deal specifically with at-risk populations in Uganda. Read their answers.

By Nora Daly

Jul 17

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As stigma against gays in Uganda spikes, so do HIV risks

By Jeffrey Brown, Jason Kane, Victoria Fleischer

While the United Nations has reported optimistic news about controlling the global epidemic of HIV and AIDS, Uganda’s infection rates are growing. Public health officials say the trend is partially tied to stigma faced by at-risk groups like gay men…

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The HIV rebound nobody is discussing

Is an AIDS-free generation on the horizon? Not without the help of sex workers and other marginalized "key populations," public health officials say.

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