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Claire’s (in-country project manager) personal account

The CDC people were rather busy in this month with the Beijing programme. They said they had no time for programme activities in villages. So she asked the CDC people to invite some sex workers to the CENTRE in the afternoon of October 27 in order to familiarize herself with the workings of the CENTRE and to meet some of the women who used this resource.. Peer counseling is one of the functions that the CENTRE provides.

11 girls and women between 20 and 50 years old came. Various personal accounts were given concerning why these women worked as sex workers. A woman aged around 45 confided that she had tried various jobs after getting divorced, but that income far enough from supporting her two children, one studying at a university, the other at a senior high, so she chose to do sex work, which enables her to earn 7 times more than what she did before. Financial difficulties and lack of education were a common thread among the various women’s personal accounts.

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Claire’s (in-country project manager) personal account.

On september 19-20 we went to see how the CENTRE was running. It turned out to be working fine. Some sex workers came by and inquired about some problems. We interviewed them and some did not mind talking about their life.

During the talking, Claire and two CDC workers handed out a questionaire, checking how much the street sex workers knew about STD’s and HIV/AIDS and what to do to help them protect themselves, their customers and their family members. When the girls and women were not certain, we would provided them with information and discussed the various questions/comments/concerns that arose.

In the evening of September 19, Our team members (Claire and the 7 CDC people) took the questionaire and went interviewing sex works at different venues (massage lounges, KTV-Karaoke, night clubs), trying to figure out how much knowledge they had on HIV/AIDS and other STDs.

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