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Care Seeking Behaviors and Health Hazard Problems of Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh: A Critical Review
Salma Begum
Abstract

Recently, girl and adult women have been enrolling themselves as sex workers to a large extent in Bangladesh. As a result they suffer from various kinds of health problems like physical, social, and psychological. The objective of this article is to identify the health problems and care seeking behaviors of the child sex workers as regards various health linked problems. The obtained data notify that among the sex workers 55 per cent suffered from physical torture and 37 per cent from sexual torture. Prevalence of sickness was in so far as high among street girls (83%) followed by hotel girls (79%) and residence girl’s (78%) than that of brothel girls (59%).Extensive programmes from governmental and other non governmental levels should taken for rising the consciousness of the sex workers about the understanding of health related problems and the preventive way to avoid such kind of complications.

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