{"id":7760,"date":"2024-10-02T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:06:57","slug":"sex-workers-find-themselves-at-the-center-of-congos-mpox-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/02\/sex-workers-find-themselves-at-the-center-of-congos-mpox-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo\u2019s mpox outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-outbreak-sex-workers-miners-kamituga-congo-5f6f3c7e9f0abd1917f8daf41678ea2b\">AP<\/a> &nbsp;It\u2019s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mpox\">from mpox<\/a>, but as a sex worker, she said, she\u2019s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away people who\u2019ve heard she had the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s risky work,\u201d Kunguja, 40, said from her small home in eastern Congo. \u201cBut if I don\u2019t work, I won\u2019t have money for my children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sex workers are among those hardest-hit by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-new-strain-outbreak-kamituga-eastern-congo-f9affb7a7d73c8c30daf296c51c920c7\">mpox outbreak in Kamituga<\/a>, where some 40,000 of them are estimated to reside \u2014 many single mothers driven by poverty to this mineral-rich commercial hub where gold miners comprise the majority of the clientele. Doctors estimate 80% of cases here have been contracted sexually, though the virus also spreads through other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/what-is-mpox-monkey-pox-congo-emergency-415d11f9e62d104b4c40dd8fe8e80b47\">kinds of skin-to-skin contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mpox-outbreak-sex-workers-miners-kamituga-congo-5f6f3c7e9f0abd1917f8daf41678ea2b\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP &nbsp;It\u2019s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered&nbsp;from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she\u2019s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away people who\u2019ve heard she had the virus. \u201cIt\u2019s risky work,\u201d Kunguja, 40, said from her small home in eastern Congo. \u201cBut if I don\u2019t work, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeypox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}