Johnathan understood the importance of image on the psyche of a Nation informed by international perceptions and effects thereof. It seems Buhari's administration is somewhat lax in this area. The Daily Mail of Britain has for the past few days been targeting Nigeria with negative and derogatory news and someone should be tasked by Nigeria to curtail or look into ways of controling such output.

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The Angels of Death: Inside the squalid brothels of Nigeria where tens of thousands of HIV-positive prostitutes are fuelling an AIDS epidemic claiming 10 million lives a year

Series of photographs shows sex workers in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, living in squalid conditions
Nearly a quarter of prostitutes in Nigeria have HIV, recent studies found
Research into attitudes has found concerning attitudes toward condom use and safe sex
There are an estimated 1.2 million people in Lagos living with HIV


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A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions.

And the images have a tragic undercurrent, with tens of thousands of people in the sex trade diagnosed with HIV each year, and millions dying from AIDS across Nigeria.

A survey conducted last year has also highlighted that attitudes towards condom use is helping the spread of the condition, and research suggests that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV.




A study in 2013 found that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV




The pictures were taken in a Lagos slum, where women as young as 14 entertain up to five clients per day



The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koene in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city


A woman stands next to an advert encouraging condom use, in a country where researchers found more needs to be done to change attitudes toward safe sex

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The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koeneon in a Lagos slum named Badia.

There are currently an estimated 1.2million people in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, living with HIV.

He said his driver had quipped: 'If you arrive by car, you can smell the HIV virus outside.'



A man speaks to a woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to survive


Studies have raised concerns over attitudes toward condom use in Nigeria


A woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to make ends meet


Sex workers often entertain up to five clients per day in the impoverished slums in Lagos

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In Badia, sex workers as young as 14, trying to earn money to survive, entertain around five clients a day.

Last year a study by the Iranian Journal of Public Health noted that the country has a 4.1 per cent HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in adults.

Thanks to investment and education, the study found, the rate had fallen from five per cent in the early 2000s, but it said there is still some way to go.


The photo series shows sex workers in the slum in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria



The women agreed to be photographed by Ton Koene in the impoverished slum in Nigeria's largest city





A woman adjusts her makeup in the Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria, where hundreds of women are working in the sex trade



Sex workers charge each client between two and five dollars in the poverty-stricken district

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Three years ago, research by the Journal of the International AIDS Society found the prevalence among sex workers in Nigeria was 24.3 per cent.

Last year's study said women often found they could not ask their husbands or boyfriends to wear condoms, and were not expected to carry them.

One respondent, a 28-year-old marketing executive, said: 'The problem is that you cannot even suggest the use of that thing to your boyfriend.


A sex worker smokes a cigarette in the series of photographs taken by photographer Ton Koene



The series of photographs were taken in the Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria



In Badia, sex workers as young as 14, trying to earn money to survive, entertain around five clients a day


Sex workers are highly at risk from contracting HIV in Lagos, where an estimated 1.2 million people have the condition


A man speaks to a woman in the poverty-stricken district in Lagos, where many women turn to the sex trade to make ends meet

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'It’s like if you say it you are accusing him of sleeping around or that you are not sure of yourself. No matter which one, it can end the relationship and give you a bad name.'

It stated: 'To confirm this cultural barrier to access to prevention tools, only one female respondent... has ever gone to buy a condom for her boyfriend, while all the other female respondents were of the view that they would not like their parents and spouses to see them with condoms.'

A 42-year-old father of three told researchers in the study: 'Any woman, including my wife who tells her husband about it or gets it for them to use needs to be questioned. In short, she should be seriously sanctioned.




A woman stands in front of an advertisement encouraging condom use in Lagos, Nigeria


A woman stands in a doorway in the Lagos slum, where many are driven to work in the sex trade in squalid conditions



Poverty-stricken sex workers charge clients between two and five dollars, and often entertain up to five a day

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Yesterday them carry one wey say she be Nigerian full up this same Daily mail of a paper in order to illustrate the exploitation of the NHS by foreigners. Poor woman is even going to be shown in some luxurious no-expenses-spared documentary to hammer home the point. That expose has all the hallmarks of Indians pushing some gullible Nigerian to the front to hide the fact that Indians are the biggest exploiters of the NHS. I might post that article including pics.