Mexican sex workers want place at AIDS conference
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By Tan Ee Lyn
8/3/2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico
City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual
sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside.
She will be protesting on the fringes of the six-day biennial event.
"They (Mexican health authorities) said they had no money for everyone
who wanted scholarships. We are very angry," said Elma Delea, as she
stood at the junction of Calle de Alfredo Chavero and Calzada San
Antonio Abad, a stretch of road where transsexuals wait all night to
be picked up by customers in passing cars.