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Home > Nigeria: Sex Workers Aware of AIDS, But Unaware of Viral Transmission Routes

Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
46 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The majority of Nigeria's 80,000 sex workers are aware of HIV/AIDS, but most do not know how it is transmitted and almost half do not take measures to protect themselves, according to a recent study by the Nigerian Society for Family Health.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/4735 [5]
Country: 
Nigeria [6]

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