Risk and Vulnerability of HIV among Working Girls of Tri City

Pages: 11-13
Shreya Singh (Kasturbha Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka)
Veena Singh and Vinod Kumar (Haryana State AIDS Control Society, Panchkula, Haryana)

The present paper reviews on risk and vulnerability o fHIV among working girls o f Tri city. It has often been seen that most o f the young girls o f small town and villages go to big cities for higher education orjobs, where they attract to higher modem living standard, and become habitual to use with expensive assets, electronic equipments etc. Some girls, coming from middle class families received limited funds from families for their daily livelihood. After coming there, they want to show them like their rich and modem friends and use to take drinking, smoking as well as often to go late nightclub parties. Day to day their life become so dependent on money and they indulges in some illegal activities like, drug paddling, sex work, work as bar girls, massage parlous, etc. These girls are most at risk and vulnerable for HIV infection.