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Word: wiltrud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complaining about Polish women pouring into the city and turning unprotected tricks. Naively, the Poles -- laid off from regular jobs and trying to support families -- hope to cash in quickly and return home in a few months. Raised as Catholics, "their AIDS awareness is nil," says social worker Wiltrud Schenk. "They get embarrassed if you mention the word condom." In Bombay farmers migrate to town off-season for construction jobs. They visit the brothels -- where a third of the prostitutes are HIV-positive -- and later infect their wives. The virus is sweeping the subcontinent: from half a dozen HIV-positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

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