$178,000 of Taxpayers’ Money to Study Thai Prostitutes
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WedNEWSday - May 20th, 2009
In addition to funding overseas abortions, the hard-working American taxpayers’ dollars will now be wasted on a study to determine why prostitutes in Thailand (including those of the transgender and/or transexual variety) have high rates of HIV infection.
The National Institutes of Health study, “Substance Use and HIV Risk among Thai Women,” is looking at the interplay of personal and cultural factors that put Thai prostitutes at special risk.
But women aren’t its only target. The two-year project, made possible by a grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, is also studying kathoey, the transgender prostitutes who are widely accepted in Thailand because of the “karmic idea in Buddhism,” and who have especially high HIV infection rates, according to the study’s abstract.
Researchers plan to interview 60 sex workers — 36 women and 24 kathoey — to understand the factors that make the prostitutes susceptible to HIV, including economic pressure, sex-change operations, their heavy use of drugs and a Buddhist fatalism that keeps them feeling resigned to their fate.
The person at the NIH who thought this one up needs to be fired.
This from FOXNews.com - May 20th, 2009
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