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Fig. 5:3 A HIV/AIDS infected sex worker living on the street in Falkland Mumbai.
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Sometimes an NGO may look after these women and provide medical facilities. Living
on galis however, becomes an open invitation to disease, because there is no proper place
for, sleeping or washing. By living in such abject environments they become vulnerable
to tuberculosis, pneumonia and jaundice. Finding medical facilities while living on the gali
is almost impossible. These women live on the mercy of by-passing strangers.
When they are found dead, their bodies are generally used for medical research and
practice purposes or are cremated using an electric current. Because they are anonymous,
the cost is met by municipal corporations.
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