African sex

Sex workers in Africa are among the communities suffering the most due to the COVID pandemic, as lockdowns and police crackdowns leave millions without income. Peninah said disruptions in condom distribution and outreach prevention programs by peers in homes and streets are leaving sex workers more exposed to contracting HIV, putting at risk the progress made against the disease in recent years. Price hikes on public transport linked to COVID restrictions are making access to anti-retroviral drugs harder. Peninah, whose organization has 10, members in Nairobi, said many sex workers are working in unsafe brothels out of necessity, where they are exposed to violence.

Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work. South Africa should decriminalise the exchange of sex for money by consenting adults. Sex workers also reported being sexually exploited by police and forced to pay bribes to officers. Researchers interviewed 46 women who are sex workers. All but three were single mothers, many of whom supported three or more people with their work.

We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. In many places in Africa, sex for money is readily available, cheap, risky, and often illegal.

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