as they pass by pauline the nurse approaches women and invites them to a consultation family planning and birth control a top of the mobile camel clinics agenda. after five hours on the road everyone is exhausted by the time they reach their first stop in the rift valley. the local children greet the camels as though they were circus attractions. rival. pauline and godwin set up their clinic in the open air. market during their first patient would like an hiv test he asks if he could have become infected by contaminated food. if the patient leave pauline explains the h.i.b. is spread by unprotected sex with an infected person and shows him how to use
prostitution as a means of survival could also be deadly. after burkes prior arrest for soliciting the jail administered a hiv test and it came back positive. did that make you want to stop at all? did you think okay maybe i should stop doing this? um-hmm. what happened after that? i didn t stop. just couldn t do it. it was the way i was surviving so did you disclose this to your clientele? um-hmm. you told them right away? um-hmm. what is their reaction? some people choose to do it and some people choose not to. most people still go through with it because there is protection used. as part of probation, burkes was placed on the court ordered treatment regimen that reduces risk of transmitting the disease.
prostitution as a means of survival could also be deadly. after burkes prior arrest for soliciting the jail administered a hiv test and it came back positive. did that make you want to stop at all? did you think okay maybe i should stop doing this? um-hmm. what happened after that? i didn t stop. just couldn t do it. it was the way i was surviving so did you disclose this to your clientele? um-hmm. you told them right away? um-hmm. what is their reaction? some people choose to do it and some people choose not to. most people still go through with it because there is protection used. as part of probation, burkes was placed on the court ordered treatment regimen that reduces risk of transmitting the disease. but if burkes is arrested again, the legal repercussions could be
this i can get money. prostitution as a means of survival could also be deadly. after burkes prior arrest for soliciting the jail administered a hiv test and it came back positive. did that make you want to stop at all? did you think okay maybe i should stop doing this? um-hmm. what happened after that? i didn t stop. just couldn t do it. was the way i was surviving so did you disclose this to your clientele? um-hmm. you told them right away? um-hmm. what is their reaction? some people choose to do it and some people choose not to. most people still go through with it because there is protection used. as part of probation, burkes was placed on the court ordered treatment regimen that reduces risk of transmitting the disease.
i m on probation for 90 days, which means i don t have to go see a probation officer. i just have to do what they want me to do. go to an hiv education class and take a frickin hiv test. and give them the results. then i m free. if i don t do that, i go to jail for two months. he gave me a copy of my court papers saying what i needed to do. i have to pay a fine? $478! good lord, that s a lot of money. it s a fine that cassandra will unlikely ever pay. what little money she does get goes towards her day-to-day survival on the streets. what made me go into prostitution is i was pregnant and needed to survive, so i decided to do that to get money to eat. otherwise, i would have starved and my baby would not have been healthy. i d have been sick. i was already losing ten pounds