Diesel, oil, condoms: transgender sex workers teach India’s truckers about Aids
On the road for weeks at a time, STDs are rife among lorry drivers. Now, volunteers are teaching them about safe sex
At a roadside booth, a volunteer pulls a condom over a wooden phallus. “Feel the packet first. If it feels dry, don’t use it, it’s past the expiry date,” he tells his audience of truck drivers as the traffic speeds by behind them.
A short distance away, transgender sex workers Ruby and Bhavna are urging truckers clustered around a tea stall to ignore some common myths.
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