The research showed that almost 68% of the sex workers of Villa Minosa already suffered a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Because most of them cannot recognize STD's. They unfortunately call on a medical doctor much too late. Even though they are active in the sex business, they are very shy to visit a medical doctor with a venerial disease.
In the low-income area of Rio de janiero, known as 'Villa Mimosa', about 600 women offer their services. The project 'In Formation' will start its first year with a training course. First of all to prepare this team to multiply fundamental basic information on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in the direct personal contact with the population of Villa Mimosa.
Many female prostitutes of the low income area of Rio de Janeiro, known as Villa Mimosa, search for other strategies to survive, in order to ensure a life with a little more perspective. The Aids-panic, with the prostitutes as a high-risk group, was responsible for less clients and lower income. However alsmost 80% of the women in Villa Mimosa uses condoms in their work. The women suffer discrimination and are considered as bad women, who spread Aids among society.