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  • Kwasi Yao Lionel, 12, sits in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • A boy sits in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • A nurse comes out of a consultation room at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients wait at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Monica Dahlu and her 10-month-old boy Lloyd Gyimah wait at the Osu Maternity Home in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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  • HIV/AIDS counselor Kevin Kouassi Gallet and coworker Joelle Kouakou Oussou meet with members of the Djaha family during a home visit in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Ahoua Konante (right) waits with her seven-year-old daughter Aishata, who suffers from fever, cough and muscle pains, at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009. At left is Kouadio Ahou Viviane with her 16-month-old boy Emmanuel Ngora Kwame.
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  • Ahoua Konante (right) waits with her seven-year-old daughter Aishata, who suffers from fever, cough and muscle pains, at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Patients wait to receive medical attention at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • A priestess possessed by spirits chants over past and current shrine servants during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Offering of gin made during "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Papaya crates in cold storage room.
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  • Current and past shrine servants bound with rope during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Shrine servant possessed by spirits during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Shea products in the stock room at "La Maison du Karité" shea processing center in Siby, near Bamako, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Isatu Conteh and her 1y9m old child outside a screening room at the Magbenthe hospital in Makeni, Sierra Leone on Thursday February 26, 2009. .Isatu has lost 3 children to malnutrition already, this is her only child.
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  • Women chanting during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest spitting gin on shrine servant to purify her during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Current and past shrine servants have their wrists bound with rope during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Current and past shrine servants being beaten to purify their sins during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Dead chicken sacrificed during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Both chickens lay on their left side, indicating that the shrine servant is free to go. One or both of the chickens laying on their right side would mean the servant needs to spend another three months at the shrine. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Head priest about to sacrifice a chicken during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Priestess receiving a gin offering during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Shrine servant kneeling during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Ankle bracelet and offering of gin at a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Traditional rituals take place during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Arm bracelets worn by the head priest during a "coming out" ceremony at a fetish shrine in Aflao, Volta Region, Eastern Ghana. A woman was released after spending three months in a small, dark room, hoping that she'd then be able to find a husband. Despite most Ghanaians being adamant followers of christianism or islam, many of them still maintain traditional beliefs. When facing a problem of any nature, some people will visit a local fetish shrine, looking for help. The main priest will consult the oracles and tell the person in need what has to be done for the problem to go away. People will typically be asked to "serve" the shrine for weeks, sometimes months, as their families pay the priest for their upkeep.
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  • Women pile sacks of dried shea nuts in a storage room at the Si Yiriwa shea processing center in the town of Diolila, Mali on Friday January 15, 2010.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, holds her prescription for ARV drugs as she sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, holds the drugs she takes every day as she sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • The pharmacy administrator checks stocks of drugs in the pharmacy's storage room at the Koumassi General Hospital in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, is reflected in a mirror as she sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Liberian national Nina Jallah sits in front of a fan, in the room where she lives with her family in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • Nurse Konam Aya Marguerite stands in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Kevin Kouassi Gallet opens up a waiting room as he prepares to start his day of work as an HIV/AIDS counselor at the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Pharmacy staff check stocks of drugs in the pharmacy's storage room at the Koumassi General Hospital in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013.
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  • A girl sits on a bench in a waiting room at the Koumassi General Hospital in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday July 19, 2013.
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  • Adjua Yao, 45, who is HIV positive, holds the drugs she takes every day as she sits in a room of her sister's home in the Campement neighborhood of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 10, 2013. Adjua, a mother of five, is currently unemployed and lives with her sister. She's under ARV treatment and takes three pills a day.
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  • Waiting room at the Kassaro community health center in the village of Kassaro, Mali on Saturday August 28, 2010.
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  • A mother and her child in a waiting room at the Pujehun Government hospital in Pujehun, Sierra Leone on Friday March 19, 2010..
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  • Kobenda Walemba, his wife Emerance Masca, and their two children stand in an empty room of the small house they rent for $10 a month in Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday December 15, 2008. The couple has been in Goma for three weeks, which they reached after walking for 9 hours after violence broke out in Kiwanja, where they lived. "We saw that if we went to stay in the camp, we would get diarrhea, we would get sick, because of all the people who stay there," explains Walemba. "We had a little bit of money so we found this house. We don't sleep well, we have no food. To find water to drink is a problem. I hope our children can have a good life."
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  • Nina Jallah in the room where she lives with her family in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • Liberian nationals Fatou Jallah (left) and her sister Nina sit with Nina's children and friends Michael Johnson (back left) and Solo Biee, also Liberians, in the room where Nina lives with her family in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • Liberian nationals Fatou Jallah (let) and her sister Nina sit in the room where they live in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • Liberian nationals Fatou Jallah (let) and her sister Nina sit in front of a fan in the room where they live in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • Liberian national Nina Jallah (left) sits with her children and friend Michael Johnson, also Liberian, in the room where Nina lives with her family in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on..
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  • A crucifix hangs on the wall in the waiting room of the NDA health center in Dimbokro, Cote d'Ivoire on Friday June 19, 2009.
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  • Liberian national Nina Jallah sits with her two children in the room where they live in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday July 16, 2009. Nina says she's not following the Charles Taylor trial and wishes people could just move on.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Lucie, 15, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school. Standing in the doorway is Lucie, 15, who also works at the brothel.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Aicha, 18, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. She's been working as a sex worker for two years. "I don't like this work, but I don't want to depend on someone for money", she says. Some days she earns nothing, other days she might earn 5,000 or 10,000 CFA (20$). "This money is evil", she says. "If you use it to fund a project it will bring back luck." Aicha has never been to school.
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  • Lucie, 15, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Lucie, 15, lies on a bed in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Lucie left her father's home in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire because she couldn't get along with his third wife. She would prefer working in home cleaning, but has no references and no one will hire her. She says she's had unprotected sex with clients only 3 times, at the client's request. On those occasions, she charged 2000 CFA (4$) instead of the usual 1000. Lucie has never been to school.
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  • Nicole, 16, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, sits in one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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  • Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). "When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know", she says. "Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them." Nicole went to school up to grade 5.
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