In the late 1980s and early 1990s in India, HIV/AIDS epidemic was growing at an alarming rate and particularly in the red light areas in the country. Many women in the sex trade faced discrimination, stigma, and suffered due to the lack of proper medical treatment. And more recently in the year 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, these women and their children suffered the same hardships all over again. 

On this episode, Ms. Priti Patkar, co-founder of Prerana discusses the overall impact the HIV epidemic and Covid-19 pandemic had on the lives of prostituted women and their children. We answer questions like, 

What was the impact of HIV on the lives of the women in the sex trade?

What role does stigma and discrimination play in their lives?

How did the State support prostituted women with HIV?

How has the COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown affect the prostituted women and their children in the red-light areas?

For more information go to  https://fighttrafficking.org/research/health-services-red-light-area-2019/

 https://fighttrafficking.org/atc_blog/covid-kamathipura-lockdown/

https://fighttrafficking.org/research/covid-ras-2020/

 Credits 

Producer: PRERANA C/O Exe Secretary-Priti Patkar

Conceptualised by Dr Pravin Patkar & Kashina Kareem

Host & Exe Producer– Kashina Kareem

Content & Expertise – Dr. Pravin Patkar

Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas

Senior Producer: Divita Oberoi

Junior Producer: Nikkethana Kamal

Sound Design & Mix: Kartik Kulkarni

Sound Editor: Yash Hirave

Graphic Designer: Alika Gupta

Audio clips source :

 ‘Unfinished’ by Prerana 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s in India, HIV/AIDS epidemic was growing at an alarming rate and particularly in the red light areas in the country. Many women in the sex trade faced discrimination, stigma, and suffered due to the lack of proper medical treatment. And more recently in the year 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, these women and their children suffered the same hardships all over again.  On this episode, Ms. Priti Patkar, co-founder of Prerana discusses the overall impact the HIV epidemic and Covid-19 pandemic had on the lives of prostituted women and their children. We answer questions like,  What was the impact of HIV on the lives of the women in the sex trade? What role does stigma and discrimination play in their lives? How did the State support prostituted women with HIV? How has the COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown affect the prostituted women and their children in the red-light areas? For more information go to <a class="ProsemirrorEditor-link" href="https://fighttrafficking.org/research/health-services-red-light-area-2019/"> https://fighttrafficking.org/research/health-services-red-light-area-2019/</a> <a class="ProsemirrorEditor-link" href="https://fighttrafficking.org/atc_blog/covid-kamathipura-lockdown/"> https://fighttrafficking.org/atc_blog/covid-kamathipura-lockdown/</a>  <a class="ProsemirrorEditor-link" href="https://fighttrafficking.org/research/covid-ras-2020/">https://fighttrafficking.org/research/covid-ras-2020/</a>   Credits  Producer: PRERANA C/O Exe Secretary-Priti Patkar Conceptualised by Dr Pravin Patkar & Kashina Kareem Host & Exe Producer– Kashina Kareem Content & Expertise – Dr. Pravin Patkar Creative Director: Mae Mariyam Thomas Senior Producer: Divita Oberoi Junior Producer: Nikkethana Kamal Sound Design & Mix: Kartik Kulkarni Sound Editor: Yash Hirave Graphic Designer: Alika Gupta Audio clips source : <a class="ProsemirrorEditor-link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ch278rrvo&t=46s"> ‘Unfinished’</a> by Prerana

Human Trafficking is a form of slavery. It’s the buying and selling of human beings through force, fraud, deception or coercion  or by such other criminal means to exploit them for commercial sex, bonded  labour or by harvesting their organs and trading in it. Human trafficking is a fast growing crime across the globe.

On Humans Not For Sale by Prerana, we aim to create broader awareness around human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. We will help answer questions like - What is human trafficking? Is prostitution legal in India? How do the police conduct rescue operations? How do we help the rehabilitation of the victims? And more. 

Prerana is a non-profit and civil society organisation that protects children born to prostituted women in red light areas and helps the women themselves towards their rehabilitation, social reintegration and to restore their dignity by safeguarding their rights. 

For more information go to https://www.fighttrafficking.org/

Humans Not For Sale by Prerana

In the late 1980s and early 1990s in India, HIV/AIDS epidemic was growing at an alarming rate and particularly in the red light areas in the country. Many women in the sex trade faced discrimination, stigma, and suffered due to the lack of proper...

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