{"id":69273,"date":"2025-02-03T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/03\/diesel-oil-condoms-indian-transgender-sex-workers-teach-truckers-about-aids"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:00:33","slug":"diesel-oil-condoms-transgender-sex-workers-teach-indias-truckers-about-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69273","title":{"rendered":"Diesel, oil, condoms: transgender sex workers teach India\u2019s truckers about Aids"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the road for weeks at a time, STDs are rife among lorry drivers. Now, volunteers are teaching them about safe sex<\/p>\n

At a roadside booth, a volunteer pulls a condom over a wooden phallus. \u201cFeel the packet first. If it feels dry, don\u2019t use it, it\u2019s past the expiry date,\u201d he tells his audience of truck drivers as the traffic speeds by behind them.<\/p>\n

A short distance away, transgender sex workers Ruby and Bhavna are urging truckers clustered around a tea stall to ignore some common myths.<\/p>\n

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On the road for weeks at a time, STDs are rife among lorry drivers. Now, volunteers are teaching them about safe sexAt a roadside booth, a volunteer pulls a condom over a wooden phallus. \u201cFeel the packet first. If it feels dry, don\u2019t use it, it\u2019s past …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[791,59,346,62,3250,3249,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aids-and-hiv","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-sex-work","category-sexual-health","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69273\/revisions\/69274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}