Some Facts About AIDS and HIV * Reproduced by the National AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health, Belize with permission from CAREC.
Transmission of HIV
If I have sex with a commercial sex worker (prostitute) will I get HIV?
Unprotected sex (sex without a condom) places you at a high risk of contracting the virus whether it is with a commercial sex worker or another person.
However, statistics from the Caribbean and several other parts of the world have shown that there is a higher prevalence or occurrence of HIV in commercial sex workers (prostitutes). Therefore by having unprotected sex with a commercial sex worker, the risk of contracting HIV is high.
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