Cameroon: Sex Workers Brush Off Beatings to Send Clients for HIV Tests

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Yaounde — While one in 25 people in Cameroon are living with HIV, more then a third of the country's sex workers are infected, meaning they hold the key to halting the spread of the virus

During six years of selling sex on the streets and in brothels across Cameroon's capital Yaounde, Rose has been abused, attacked and forced to have unprotected sex by her clients.

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