A Risky Trade in Ukraine Grows Riskier Amid the War - The New York Times

A Risky Exchange in Ukraine Grows Riskier Amid the War

In the city of Dnipro, the charity Virtus has registered 2,300 sex workers, but far more have carried to the city to escape fighting, according to Iryna Tkachenko, a Virtus social worker.

“It takes time to earn up the trust,” she said.

With supply chains disrupted, the social workers have fewer condoms to distribute, and fewer shipshape needles to prevent sharing among drug users.

The spread of H.I.V. is plus social workers’ greatest concerns.

Treatment with antiretroviral medications helps crop the transmission from workers to clients, and thus within the broader society. But over the last year, about 40 of Ukraine’s H.I.V. employ centers have stopped working, about half because of shelling afflict, the health center said.

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