Update: Are you likely to contract sexual infections from prostitutes?
Sex workers and clients are often labelled as a "high risk group" in the context of HIV and STDs
Prostitutes are potentially at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) due to increased numbers of partners and incidences of contact.
Prostitution involves the exchange of sexual services for economic compensation.
As sexual behaviour is an important determinant in transmitting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), sex workers (SWs) and clients are often labelled as a “high risk group” in the context of HIV and STDs.
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It has been documented that female sex workers in particular have an increased prevalence of untreated STDs and have been hypothesized to affect the health and HIV incidence of the general population.
People involved in prostitution are a cause for concern from both public health and economic perspectives.
Condoms are very effective at preventing infections, but the point to focus on is whether you actually used a condom to protect yourself and whether the condom was used correctly without it splitting or coming off.
Condoms reduce the risk of most sexually transmitted diseases, although there are some infections that can be passed on through close physical contact, whether or not a condom was used.
According to a local doctor, prostitutes are at a high risk of contracting STIs.
There are government clinics where they can go and have checkups on a regular basis. To reiterate, condoms can go a long way towards preventing their partners from contracting a sexually transmitted infection.
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