Coronavirus: Zambia sex workers praised for contact tracing

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While African governments give aid to their citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic, sex workers have seemingly been forgotten.

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I was driving with friends along Sinza road when someone in the car said, “look at all those women”. In my naivety I asked, “what are they all doing lined up over there?”.

Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
These sexual initiations begin once menstruation starts and sometimes involve sticks being inserted inside the girls, Persilia Muianga of international aid agency World Vision said.
She added that some mothers force young daughters to sleep with a man in the...

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