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Most of India’s 2.8 million prostitutes own cellphones – making it easier to contact them about HIV tests
LAKSHMI leads a double life. Her family thinks she works in a garment factory during the day. But 45-year-old Lakshmi sells sex, courting customers on the streets of Bangalore, India. At night, she goes home to her husband and children. “Sex workers maintain such secret identities for decades,” says Nithya Sambasivan at the University of California, Irvine.
The explosion of cellphones in India has made it easier for social workers to contact women like Lakshmi, who has…
