Inexperienced prostitutes most at risk of sexual infections

Friday, December 12, 2008 - 04:49 in Health & Medicine

Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has shown that girls who were new to the sex industry were twice as likely to have gonorrhoea or chlamydia.

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