HIV/AIDS and its effect on Commercial Sex Worker (CSW)

A notion that puts the sex workers in comparison to Ganga has always prevailed in our society. It is a common belief that just like Ganga, the sex workers or prostitutes also drench themselves into the sins of others and make them pure. Now that HIV or AIDS has made its way into India it compels us to rethink our presumptions and ask an important and relevant question- are these sex workers really comparable to Ganga which washes away all the sins of a person and leaves him pure as gold or are they more like Vaitarani river where the uninfected diver if comes out uninfected he is lucky, otherwise he becomes the one who has to face the wrath.