Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Marķa, 36, of Havana, said she donned a miniskirt and hit the streets when money was tight but worried about AIDS and made her clients wear condoms. She learned about AIDS through a government program.




Cuba Counters Prostitution With AIDS Programs
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.

Published: December 26, 2004


AVANA - Like many prostitutes who ply their trade in the darkened bars and discos near tourist hotels here, Marķa says she does not go out every night. But whenever money gets tight and her 12-year-old son is hungry, she puts on a red miniskirt, puts rouge on her lips and heads for El Conejito bar, a thinly disguised rendezvous point.

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"Most of the tourists come to look for girls, tobacco, you know, the things they cannot get in their country," she said. "They say the Cuban girls are very hot."

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