A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions and the images have a trag...
A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions and the images have a tragic undercurrent, with tens of thousands of people in the sex trade diagnosed with HIV each year, and millions dying from AIDS across Nigeria.
A survey conducted last year by Daily Mail, has also highlighted that attitudes towards condom use is helping the spread of the condition, and research suggests that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV.
The pictures were taken in a Lagos slum, where girls as young as 14 entertain up to five clients per day.
The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koene in Lagos.
Sex workers often entertain up to five clients per day in the impoverished slums in Lagos.
In Badia, sex workers as young as 14, trying to earn money to survive, entertain around five clients a day.
Sex workers charge each client between two and five dollars in the poverty-stricken district
