The prostitutes are believed to often be duped by their pimps into believing there is a pill and/or injection that can prevent them contracting AIDS. The race is on.
Seriously though... AIDS has been aorund for how long now and there are still so many mistaken beliefs about how it is contracted... Anyone think AIDS will ever go away or, at the very least, stop being known as a death sentence?
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China tries to stop spread of HIV/AIDS among prostitute
A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel said she has up to eight clients a day.
Working in the southern boom city of Shenzhen, a special economic zone just north of Hong Kong, she told CNN she worries about getting AIDS, but has her own prevention measures.
"I always use condoms or take an injection. The medicine can prevent sexually transmitted diseases," she said. "Some girls do not use prevention measures, but we don't talk about that in public."
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