Sex Workers Risk their Lives with Home Abortions, study finds

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Khmer Times/Jonathan Cox

Sunday, 09 August 2015

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PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Fear of social reprisal may be causing Phnom Penh’s sex workers to seek abortions in the privacy of unregistered private clinics or at home.

But they pay a high price for confidentiality. These abortions are dangerous, unregulated, and sometimes the mother dies in the process. Despite the danger, a new study shows that 90 percent of sex workers choose to terminate their pregnancy at home or at private clinics in order to escape public shaming.

Researchers from NGO KHANA and the Center for Global Health Research interviewed 667 sex workers for this study, released July 31. Many of the workers come to Phnom Penh from the provinces seeking work at a garment factory, but poor work conditions, low wages, and long overtime hours sent them into the sex trade. Working in karaoke bars and massage parlors, and without knowledge of safe-sex practices or access to sexual-health services, many contract sexually transmitted infections, or unwanted pregnancies.

http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14218/sex-workers-risk-their-lives-with-home-abortions--study-finds/

[Nemesis7]

Sad, and I think the government should do something to help these people. They do contribute some revenue to the nation, this or that way, no doubt.

[jobsworth]

where does all the ngo money go? surely they should be helping these people.

[12DrinkMore]

where does all the ngo money go? surely they should be helping these people.

4WD vehicles, nice hotels and food, flights, expenses, administration outside the country, salaries.

[nahkit]

So they know where to find someone willing to perform an abortion but they've never heard of contraception?

More NGO bs.

[sammygood]

too lazy to take 1 pill a day ?