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  • Title: [Prostitution and AIDS. The party continues, the scourge advances].
    Author: Kpatinde F.
    Journal: Jeune Afr; 1987 Dec 02; (1404):52-5. PubMed ID: 12269057.
    Abstract:
    Although individuals suspected of having acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) may be shunned by prostitutes and their clients in large African cities, there has been little governmental response to the threat. In other countries, such as the US, women have been arrested and fined for continuing to practice prostitution when they knew they carried the deadly AIDS virus. It has been estimated that 11% of American prostitutes carry the AIDS virus. Florida and some other states administer AIDS tests to all individuals arrested for prostitution. In the state of Massachusetts, by contrast, it is illegal to administer an AIDS test without written consent of the subject. The arrival of prostitutes from African countries in some Parisian districts has allegedly driven away clients who fear they will contract AIDS. No large scale studies of the relationship of prostitution to AIDS have been done in France, but 1 small study of 134 prostitutes showed only 5 seropositive. Informed of the results, all 5 continued their professional activity. A study of 12 transvestite male prostitutes showed all were infected with AIDS. Some elements of the French extreme right have called for quarantine of AIDS cases, but until now no such action has been taken. In the West German state of Bavaria, foreign prostitutes are simply turned away at the border. Surveillance of local groups at risk of AIDS has been stepped up. The few hundred foreign prostitutes in Japan are also receiving increased scrutiny, and some stores and massage parlors refuse admittance to foreigners. AIDS is on the increase in Japan, however, and Japanese prostitutes are obliged to post results of their AIDS tests to reassure potential clients. In Africa, official reactions to the AIDS emergency have varied from country to country. Rates of infection among prostitutes have been estimated at 60% in Abidjan and 27% in Kinshasa. Condoms have not come into widespread use despite the threat of AIDS. Most prostitutes and their clients appear insufficiently concerned about the possibility of contracting AIDS.
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