Young girls stand on the street outside Marwari Mandir brothel in Jessore. Jessore is a major city near Indian border that has recognized network for trafficking women and children out of Bangladesh into brothels in India. Indian brothels are known to have extremely high HIV prevalence rate. Once infected and sick by AIDS, girls are replaced with new ones. Infected ones are send beck to their villages or rural communities in countries like Bangladesh and Nepal, where once again prostitution is taken up, if not as a primary occupation, as part time. This pattern spreads infections in such remote communities where getting treatment, even for minor infections or disease, let alone HIV/AIDS, is considered a dream. |