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Census: Half of Kenya’s female prostitutes are HIV-positive

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By  GATONYE GATHURA

North Eastern, Kenya: There are 138,420 female prostitutes in Kenya, almost half of them HIV positive, according to the first ever national census of sex workers carried out by the Ministry of Health.

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