SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — The number of active sex workers employed in Tijuana’s” tolerance zone” has dropped in recent months, going from the normal of about 13, 000 to 8, 400, officials say.
Ashley Judith Romo SolÃs, head of Tijuana’s Sanitary Control Department, says the number of effective staff includes those providing physical benefits for money on the roads, bars and houses.
All sexual workers, men and women, must enroll with the area.
” We have 27, 385 in our registry, but we consider them’ inactive’ after four years if they do n’t renew their permits”, Romo SolÃs said. ” Several come here, go through the process, and then work only to go home and never see again.”
Romo Sols argued that sexually transmitted diseases has been tested every four months before officially working.
On Jan. 1, however, the town stopped financing heath facilities where sex workers may get free medical care and testing
According to her,” The sites provided sex workers with screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV that are required to obtain a permit,” adding that 200 to 250 workers per day were looking for free lab work at these sites.
Romo Sols claimed that Tijuana’s declining rate of energetic sex workers is unlikely to be a result of the lack of free assessment.
” The personnel have discovered a way to get tested. So far this year, we’ve had 150 good cases for Diseases, including 15 for syphilis”, she said.
Romo Sols thinks the decline in sexual staff is cyclical, and he anticipates that as summer approaches.
