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unusual facts about commercial sex



Human trafficking in Benin

The majority of victims are girls trafficked into domestic servitude or the commercial sex trade in Cotonou, the administrative capital.


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HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

HIV infection rates for commercial sex workers are high, ranging from 4.5-12.4 percent in the Dominican Republic (2000) to 9 percent in Jamaica (2005) to 30.6 percent in Guyana (2000).

Human trafficking in Kenya

City Council Social Services Departments in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu operated shelters to rehabilitate street children vulnerable to forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation; the government provided services to children exploited in the commercial sex industry at these facilities.

Human trafficking in Madagascar

A child sex tourism problem exists in coastal cities, including Tamatave, Nosy Be, and Diego Suarez, as well as the capital city of Antananarivo; some children are recruited for work in the capital using fraudulent offers of employment as waitresses and maids before being forced into the commercial sex trade on the coast.

Shared Hope International

In January 2006, Shared Hope International deployed teams to investigate the commercial sex markets in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands and three cities in the United States under a grant from the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.