{"id":66391,"date":"2024-10-02T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=66391"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:27:18","slug":"sex-workers-hit-by-congos-mpox-outbreak-say-their-only-option-is-to-keep-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/02\/sex-workers-hit-by-congos-mpox-outbreak-say-their-only-option-is-to-keep-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex workers hit by Congo\u2019s mpox outbreak say their only option is to keep working"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66392\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sifa-Kunguja-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sifa-Kunguja-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sifa-Kunguja-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sifa-Kunguja.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mpox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">mpox<\/a>, but as a sex worker, she said, she&#8217;s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away clients who&#8217;ve heard she had the virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/sex-workers-hit-by-congo-s-mpox-outbreak-say-their-only-option-is-to-keep-working\/ar-AA1rz1Rd?cvid=2884aa78385f4f40853078377c153183&amp;ei=18\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It&#8217;s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from\u00a0mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she&#8217;s still struggling to regain clients,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mpox"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Sifa-Kunguja.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66393,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66391\/revisions\/66393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}