Sunday, June 18, 2006

AIDS, HIV and misery co-exist in relief camps

AIDS, HIV and misery co-exist in relief camps
More than 100 young women have gone missing from the camps over the past two years. Regional analysts fear that such “missing girls” may have been sold into sexual slavery or “temporarily married” ~ often a euphemism for prostitutionImages of guns, drugs and rebels have long defined India’s troubled North-east. Now, a study across eight states in this resource-rich, infra-structure-poor, conflict-scarred region seeks to highlight a new worry: the rising tide of human trafficking ~ mostly women and girls ~ and its potential for hastening the spread of HIV/AIDS.

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=
14&theme=&usrsess=1&id=119874

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