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Brain teaser 1 Is an adult who has a continuing abusive relationship with a child, exchanging gifts, rewards or protection for sex, worse or the same as someone who pays for sex with a child on the streets? 1| 2|3|4|5|6|7| Next >>
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A girl in prostitution looks out from behind a poster on AIDS awareness given to her by a health worker in the south-eastern province of Svay Rieng in Cambodia.


Similarly, children are often harmed physically, regardless of whether they are exploited by only one person or by many. Children's bodies are vulnerable to damage from sex, even if there is no deliberate violence. Children are also at a higher risk of being infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections  because they often cannot control with whom and when they have sex, or whether a condom is used. 

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