{"id":6945,"date":"2012-11-26T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2012-11-26T00:08:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:08:57","slug":"prostitution-mobile-phones-and-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/prostitution-mobile-phones-and-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostitution, Mobile Phones, and AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112612_0502_Prostitutio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cell phones have transformed prostitution\u2026and thus the fight against AIDS in India writes Gardiner Harris:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s fight against AIDS has been remarkable. It is in part due to efforts funded by the World Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of broadcasting safe-sex messages that encouraged the use of condoms across India, anti-AIDS campaigners targeted certain districts where prostitution was common. This targeted resources where they were most needed and limited the spread of AIDS.<\/li>\n<li>However this was only possible because prostitutes were located in certain districts. Now they find their clients through mobile phones, and thus prostitution has become decentralized.<\/li>\n<li>Prostitutes are less likely to use protection when they&#8217;re operating outside of brothels and this will likely impede the fight against AIDS.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover with the anonymity offered by mobile phones, more men are interested in hiring prostitutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the decline of a prostitution district that has survived more than five centuries, and what the future might hold for India over <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Cellphones-reshape-prostitution-in-India-complicate-efforts-to-prevent-AIDS\/articleshow\/17361696.cms?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=tweets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Cellphones-reshape-prostitution-in-India-complicate-efforts-to-prevent-AIDS\/articleshow\/17361696.cms?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=tweets\">The Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell phones have transformed prostitution\u2026and thus the fight against AIDS in India writes Gardiner Harris: India&#8217;s fight against AIDS has been remarkable. It is in part due to efforts funded by the World Bank and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Instead of broadcasting safe-sex messages that encouraged the use of condoms across India, anti-AIDS campaigners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112612_0502_Prostitutio1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}