By
Commissioned by the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), the research used data gathered from sex worker interviews in 12 sites nationwide to estimate the country’s sex worker population.
Of the 153,000 estimated sex workers active in the country, about 8,000 are men and about another 6,000 are transgender, according to the research led by the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT).
The study found that sex was for sale in a wide range of places including brothels, at least one adult store and via local Internet sex sites.
Read full article here
