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Kenya

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Prostitution

Women are forced into prostitution due to poverty after divorce, when they are cast out of their villages. (Hawa Chelangat and Hadija Chemutai, Karin Davies, Associated Press, 8 November 1997)

         Health and Well-Being

95% of the women in prostitution in Majengo are infected with HIV/AIDS. (Karin Davies, Associated Press, 8 November 1997)

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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic and Nadine Z. Mendelsohn