High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
Infection rate exceeded 60 percent in girls forced into prostitution prior to age 15
October 15, 2007
Christine Roche
Harvard School of Public Health
A study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers of girls
and women who were sex-trafficked from Nepal to India and then
repatriated has found that 38 percent were HIV positive. The infection
rate exceeded 60 percent among girls forced into prostitution prior to
age 15 years. One in seven of the study’s participants had been
trafficked into sexual servitude prior to this young age.
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