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"If he refuses to put a condom, it's out". Tattooed body and platinum blonde hair, Foxxy Angel swallows a chorizo sandwich before sitting down on his red velvet armchair, behind the windows of a brothel in the famous red light district of Amsterdam.
The streets of this tip of center -ville are scattered on the ground floor of picturesque houses with three windows, surrounded by a neon red light. Emblematic of the capital of the Netherlands, these dens of prostitution come out of the shadows next week with the reception of the International AIDS Conference.
"When we chose Amsterdam to host the conference, it is certainly with the idea of highlighting the most vulnerable and vulnerable to HIV, "says Linda-Gail Bekker, President of the International AIDS Society (IAS). "If we do not pay attention to these people, we will fail in the fight against AIDS," she adds to AFP during a visit to the Red Light District on Saturday.
Screening [19659006] From the back of their glbad wall, through the muffled corridors and darkened rooms, bad workers did not wait for the coming of the world's best science and medicine to become aware of the risk that their run the practice of "the oldest profession in the world".
"I never have bad without condoms and I do four times a year screening for badually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV," the AIDS virus, says 47-year-old Foxxy Angel, of the Netherlands.
After more than three decades of research, the virus remains incurable and vaccine-free. It has contaminated some 80 million people since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s.
Among these people, colleagues from Foxxy Angel and Elsa, his young neighbor window. In the red light district, it's been a long time since AIDS is no longer taboo.
"I'm not afraid at all, some of my girlfriends are infected with HIV but they continue to work. is possible today, "says the 25-year-old American, referring to medical progress.
bad was legalized in the Netherlands in 2000 and prostitutes, registered at the chamber of commerce, pay taxes on their work.
About 7,000 people work in the bad-priced sector in Amsterdam and 75% of them come from low-income countries, particularly from Eastern Europe, according to the municipality.
Do not close your eyes
"Bride and Polyandra", a bad worker since the age of 17-year-old Elsa occupies a showcase along one of Amsterdam's many cbads. In front of her, the brothel where she made her scales since she set her bags in the Netherlands, fleeing the lack of freedom she experienced in the performance of her work in the United States. [19659003] Like Foxxy Angel, Elsa goes several times a year to a community-funded screening center, close to their workplace.
"I'm very careful, I use condoms." But these screenings are free, so I take advantage, "says the young woman, wearing a pink top and black leggings.
If morals have changed since the arrival of AIDS, democratizing the condom into homes closed, bad workers must always keep an eye open.
"Some men try to remove the condom during badual intercourse, when that happens, that's the end of the appointment, immediately," says Foxxy Angel, a 15-year-old prostitute
"Not even for a million I would accept that," she insists.
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