lesotho: Women Trade Unsafe Sex for Survival

Under-qualified for the new textile jobs that drew them to Lesotho's capital city of Maseru, many young women from the famine-plagued countryside are surviving by selling sex, with and without a condom. "The first time I did it, I cried," said 22-year-old Lonia Ratesebe as she waits on her normal corner with her friend and housemate, Ana Dikeledi. "I felt guilty, but there was no food, no clothing and no jobs."