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PUNE, Jan 18: A survey in Pune conducted by NGOs has revealed that commercial sex workers had a 50 per cent fall in their business in March and April, when standard X and XII students were busy with their exams.
This revelation was made by Deepak Kapoor, Additional Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation, at a seminar on `Sex Education and Prevalence of STD Amongst School Children’ that was attended by principals from almost 50 schools in Pune at Ruby Hall Clinic recently. The seminar concentrated on approximately 49 per cent of CSWs are HIV positive and whatever be the efforts being put into educating children, they continued to be ignorant about the rising scourge. What is worse is that AIDS counselors have reported a rapid spread of the virus amongst young girls.
According to Dr Sanjay Pujari, an HIV/AIDS consultant, alarming international statistics state that half of all new HIV infected are in the age group of 10 to 24 years and as many as 7,000 young people are getting infected every day. Less than 20 per cent schools have introduced sex education for children.
