Just as the existence of commercial sex is a major culprit in the widespread prevalence of STDs such as gonorrhea and syphilis, commercial sex is also a major culprit in the widespread and still uncontrolled global epidemic of HIV infection. Sex workers, especially female sex workers (prostitutes), are both victims of HIV infection and major transmitters of HIV infection.
In one region of Cambodia, the HIV prevalence rate among sex workers was as high as 43% in 1998. In Vietnam, the HIV infection rate among sex workers was about 8%-24% in 2003. In China, the HIV infection rate of sex workers in Guangxi has increased from 0 in 1997 to about 10% in 2000. Surveillance information shows that the number of people infected and transmitting HIV through sexually promiscuous behavior is increasing every year nationwide.
The national incidence of STDs is growing at an average annual rate of 30%, and it is estimated that millions of new STD infections occur each year, providing favorable conditions for the sexual transmission of AIDS. Moreover, the number of prostitutes caught by public security departments each year is also on the rise. These phenomena show that the risk of HIV infection being transmitted through commercial sex in China is serious, and that transmission through sexual means will become the main mode of HIV infection transmission in China.
News replay I: Shenyang prostitute infected with HIV 50-year-old Liu Yan (a pseudonym) is a native of Changtu County, Tieling City, was caught by Shenyang police in April 2004 for engaging in prostitution activities, and was sent to Shenyang Longshan Correctional Institution on May 19, and was found to be HIV-infected. On May 26, she was “cleared out” by the Shenyang Longshan Correctional Institution, and left the sight of the Center for Disease Control. After learning about this, the reporter immediately started searching and eventually found Liu Yan in her hometown of Changtu, and then started a continuous report and discussion around the incident of Liu Yan being “cleared away” from the correctional institution.
The report drew the attention of the national judiciary to the difficulty of supervising HIV-infected and sick people, and subsequently introduced relevant policies, while enabling Liu Yan to receive attention and treatment from the disease control department.
News replay II: HIV infection after prostitution revenge Haikou Business Traveler 11 received a letter from a prostitute who claimed to be an HIV carrier, the letter said she had a three-year history of the disease, out of a sense of revenge, she had sex with a number of clients in three years; at the same time she also revealed in the letter misanthropy, said she would “throw herself into the arms of the sea “. Haikou police are now urgently investigating, looking for the whereabouts of Alain.
The self-proclaimed HIV carrier “A Lan” is 22 years old, from Hunan, has a three-year history of the disease. From the content of the letter, her life is unusually difficult, and her experience is also very complicated. “For me, my birth is a wrong arrangement of God, my father left home because he gave birth to me and was a girl.”
Alain said in his letter, “At the age of fourteen, I did not even finish the first year of school to enter society (because the family did not have money), worked as a nanny, sold night markets, as a waiter, engaged in pyramid schemes, and later persuaded to enter the dance and entertainment venues to sit up, as a lady. Eighteen years old when I met a drug-addicted boyfriend (originally unknown), my disease is to let him infected. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
News replay three: basketball star sexually infected with AIDS A few years ago, a famous American basketball star was found to be infected with the AIDS virus when he was only thirty years old. The man publicly admitted that he had sexual relations with more than 2,000 women in the years after he became famous. Such frequency of sexual intercourse and frequent exchange of sexual partners surprised the East. At the same time, he suffered the consequences of sexual promiscuity and excessive sexual intercourse.