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Anti-HIV efforts are missing women street traders in South Africa.
2004 DEC 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women street hawkers in South Africa are falling through the cracks of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, despite being one of the highest risk groups, reports the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN; www.irin.org).
Up to 40% of female street traders in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province are HIV positive, researchers have found.
According to a study by the Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, most of the women live and work in poor areas, and lack basic health and welfare services and social protection.
This situation exposed them to high levels of violence, abuse and rape, said HEARD researcher Sabrina Lee. Many women also turned to commercial sex work to supplement their incomes.
"Certain aspects of the working environments of women street traders, such as working illegally and therefore at night, working at traffic intersections, truck stops, and transport hubs," made them more susceptible to HIV/AIDS, said Lee.
A number of women also used informal trading as a coping strategy to earn extra income when affected by the pandemic, she noted.
The Ukuba Nesidindi clinic, situated in Warwick Junction, the heart of Durban's informal trade, offers voluntary counseling and testing services. Figures from the clinic showed that about 40% of female street traders in the city were HIV positive - much higher than the national prevalence of 25%.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Anti-HIV efforts are missing women street traders in South Africa.