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Revealed: How married women compete with sex workers for condoms

Condoms at display at Afrika Mashariki awards take 5 campaign [File. Standard].

"I have a husband but have to do this to fend for my children. He works as a stone mason and what he earns barely gets us through," confesses Grace, not her real name.

"From Monday to Friday, I prepare my two children for school, ensure that I drop them off, and then leave for downtown Nairobi. I don't consider myself a sex worker as such, but just someone out to earn a living," says Grace, a married woman living in the slums of Mathare and engaged in sex work.

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