Lancet
04/18/2002
By Harvey McConnell
World-wide child prostitution produces a mammoth reservoir of diseases which do not receive appropriate medical and public health attention.
It is estimated that one million children are forced into prostitution every year, and the total number of prostituted children is thought to be around 10 million, according to a detailed analysis by Dr Brian Willis of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and Dr Barry Levy, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Prostituted children are at high risk of infectious disease, pregnancy, mental illness, substance abuse, and violence. However, the authors point out, there are very few reliable morbidity and mortality data. "Health data for child prostitution are extremely restricted because some studies are not published; published studies are difficult to access and tend to report qualitative, rather than quantitative, health data; and funding for large quantitative studies is difficult to obtain," they add.
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