THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER AIDS 3 Anse cicero es Residence Sex Workers | vsi\sewear Say ten mainly two types; One type is classi- RSW: s Dhak: Ci s fied by their living condition or living s) in a City is S2ccsceses eee Vulnerable of HIV/AIDS “i"255" Sele aR Eas ie Mohammad Khairul Alam | lt lower clas — ving sum or ATELY, prompted by the con- , brokers and broker's agencies. The | ‘inny house. vs V/AIDS, commercial sex Foundation’ & Association for Rural | house but they sale their sex in other srmters havo bin the focus ofa | Development and Studies ARDS) | Paes that means dey wal for de Beat des ofacenon stand fore | jolly survey Focuses on the at | ue ah ed they Ter ts a method of preventing dis: | merciel Sex. Workers, (C3v¥s) in Society Call Gil! Call Gif Second tase. Even with the many prodps | Dhaka and classifies them into four | 9PE,16 they liv in residence and active among sex workers, and | categories. They are the Residence | Some sours Tals) who cendt thet Gespite the government's obvious | Sex Workers (RSWs), Street Sex | Client and they: fern fh, germ cus | St eee oes eon ee anconectconsdersdon ofthe ota_| (HW) and Mobile Sex Workers |, Tif#, Pe I ane ot rw peson umber of people practicing the | (SWS), Another two categories is | Wwe Rouse but they don't sale profersion in Bangladesh. ough | also found such as Cal Gi or Soc. | £6, THEY know few sex workers near cen nae aeetl | arab cas mnecapeay nae | ortecrowe hen cer wens Seema epee ca ae Ce Pa | met sme oe RH) of my See ee ae eee eae | cate, Tbe " Gitegong ulna and Set beng | tstypetscome ourertone Gia | PORREOAeSInal co a a ee se aica Me el | gis PE aly etnshing In HIV/AIDS", ‘other type is Floating Sex Workers, | famities but they are housewil. If matters related to the safety of who is also a mix group; itis a sub | They are doing this when theit hus. a te i ot | enact titi | Tiny mening vs a hs serra th of ek | ao ee Se Gn | bands out ofbowse lo working ce met are dl, and Mobley Work OLS On | plac Some ae dig ny car it ecg th nen of | he ee and cat | fr cea enn. ny be ‘as the conditions of work. One of the | Sex Workers without Residence Sex | time (out of country) or may be thelr most systemarie and coherent stud: | Workers. hnusband doesn't full their sexual {ce of the industry was rocenty ear | Residence Sex Workers (RSW) is | need. ‘This type Is also. housewife fied out in Dhaka a city of about | anather factor of Dhaka city Alter | “Other group i wotkingwomen who ight million people. withdrawal of the brothel from | ‘work in several private firm oF gar ‘Dhiaka has a waditional profledif- | Dhiaka and Narayanganj most of the | jments and most of them are ma ferent from other distiict But as the | prostitutes did not get any rehabili- | pred This ype of sex workers doesn't HIV figu-s suggest, and asthe sut- tation facilities and large number ye in brothel to sale sex. They lve veyconfinms, the traditional mage is | of them stil continuing Sex trade lke a family member. only @ veneer behind which lurk | involving with residence if Dhaka | "ft tg more dangerous that 85% many secret dealings, The survey | ty. In one sense they are venerable | client & RSW do not use condom and Conducted by ‘Rainbow Natl O | groups for HIVIAIDS. We can easily | they are ignorant about the danger of Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ &‘Asso- | catch Brothel and Hotel sex workers. | HIV/AIDS. Some higher Society Res- clation for Rural Development and | We can easily catch them who stil | {dence Cail Girls use condom regu- Studies’ (ARDS) that has been work- sale sex in street, footpath, station, | larly. And rest of them in all type of Ing with sex workers and the gay terminal etc. Buticis critical o reach | residence sex worker uses it occa community in Dhaka for close to 3 | to a RSW without thelr nominated | stomally, but they use other methods Years, estimates that there ere over | source (in Bengali called Dalal). RSW | o prevent poignancy. They have 00 five thousand commercial sex-work- | is spread in Dhaka city. All most io | proper idea that condom not only ersin Dhaka. TheJoin survey actual- | every location they run thelr busi- prevents poignancy but also it can ly maps 3000 ofthese sex workers in| ness. But we can't know them. They | prevent all nds of STD/STI among, the city area. live ina house of iat as an ordinary | HIV/AIDS. So itis now necessary ‘This hidden business continues by "fernily. Without reliable source they | that we have to encourage therm to four element sex workers, clients, _ don't speak out. ‘ODSERVER MAGAZINE use condom must. "FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2006, ~ 30