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Sri Lanka Women Workers Import AIDS to Sri Lanka
[EelamNation, November 09/2001] Nearly eight hundred Women workers from the Sinhalese community have returned to Sri Lanka last year from Arab countries, and a good number of them have been identified as having been infected with AIDS. Sri Lanka women who are working in the middle-east countries have been undergoing hardships such as sexual harassments by their employers. In the meantime, the United Nations Population Fund, acting UN resident coordinator Som. P. Pudasaini said Sri Lanka is at the gateway to the AIDS epidemic and urged for precautionary methods to avert a major catrostrophy. Now you need to make a term paper topics and Buy Custom Research Paper - phd thesis turned out bette Sources said that 793 women returned to Sri Lanka from various Arab countries last year because of sexual harassments by their employers in those countries. 297 of them under went medical check up and have been identified with AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. http://videochatus.com Twenty of the returned women gave birth to children of unnamed men. Fourteen women returned home with children who were born in the middle-east countries, and the name of the father is unknown. Other returned women were mentally affected due to the sexual harassment by the middle-east men, according to the same sources. It is worth mentioning here that the vast income to war-torn Sri Lanka is from these woman workers abroad. The government promised last year that it was going to take adequate action to ensure the safety of Sri Lankan women there. But these kinds of harassments are on the rise in those countries, and several women committed suicide last year because of it. In the meantime, the United Nations Population Fund Coordinator Som. P. Pudasaini said although the AIDS plague is yet to affect Sri Lanka in the proportion it has affected other countries in the region, timely action is urgently required. Our organization is actively working with successive Sri Lankan governments since 1969 but there were several areas of concern that warrant priority. Adolescence and youth education to inculcate responsible sexual behavior, increasing accessibility to sexual education and information and raising awareness among the vulnerable youth on the risks of contracting AIDS, are seen as areas that warrant top priority. There is a great need to raise awareness on a plethora of health and reproductive issues since there is a significant population in these areas, he added.
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