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Zimbabwe: Harare's Grannies Turn to Sex Work
Zimbabwe Standard, 27 August 2017
While her peers are busy sharing fables with their grandchildren, nurturing them to be better people in society, *Lucy Mutasa (52), will be selling sex for mealie-meal, salt,… Read more »
Zimbabwe's Grannies Turn to Sex Work
The country's plummeting economic fortunes have forced many women and girls to resort to sex work for survival. "Lucy Mutasa, 52, is competing with her 28-year-old daughter, Maidei, and at times with girls as young as 13 to get customers," The Standard's Xolisani Ncube writes.
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Zimbabwe: Child Poverty and the Risks of HIV
The Herald, 21 June 2017
Our Children, Our Future It goes without saying that children are at higher risk of poverty and deprivation. Girls and boys experience all forms of poverty more acutely than adults… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Girls As Young As 12 Forced Into Sex Work by Poverty
New Zimbabwe, 5 June 2017
Girls as young as 12 in the country's HIV hot spots are selling sex for empty beer bottles, a research done by a local children's rights lobby organization has revealed. Read more »
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"Sex workers flocked from Chinhoyi town to the usually quiet mining compound after hundreds of illegal gold panners who had found their way into the mine tunnels struck gold and ... Read more »
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Some Zimbabwean girls as young as 15 have turned to sex work for survival. Shylet Moyo, a 13-year-old girl charges U.S.$10 or less in exchange for sex, reports The Standard's ... Read more »
