The women paid by American customers were younger and more likely to speak English than their counterparts, and they were more apt to inject drugs and have unprotected sex, said Steffanie Strathdee, chief of the international health division at the University of California San Diego.
She wrote the report, which appears in the current edition of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. But these are highly vulnerable women. They are being bribed to have unprotected sex. Advertisement The economic incentive may explain why prostitutes with U. Strathdee emphasized that the women should not take all the blame. Advertisement Sixty-nine percent of the prostitutes said they had at least one American client. Within that group, nearly 42 percent reported having a few American customers, and about 13 percent said most of their clients were American.
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