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Violence is an everyday part of many sex workers' lives. The severe physical, emotional and psychological trauma aside, there is another very serious consequence which violence potentially has on sex workers: HIV/AIDS. Due to the nature of the work, sex workers need to be especially well informed about HIV prevention and need to be extremely proactive in taking precautions against contracting the virus. However, there are a number of ongoing environmental factors which influence safer sex intervention programmes for sex workers and which prevent sex workers from practising safer sex. Significant amongst these is violence against sex workers.
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