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Angels of Death: A Peep Into a Brothel in Ijora, Lagos (Photos) ADVLTS ONLY!

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Angels of Death: A Peep Into a Brothel in Ijora, Lagos (Photos) ADVLTS ONLY!

In Ijora Badia, a Lagos slump, sex workers as young as 14, trying to earn money to survive, entertain around five clients a day. Inside the squalid brothels, tens of thousands of HIV-positive prostitutes are fuelling an AIDS epidemic claiming 10 million lives a year. Series of photographs shows sex workers in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, living in squalid conditions. According to a recent research study, nearly a quarter of prostitutes in Nigeria have HIV, as 40% of men who patronizes them no longer use condom for safe sex. Therefore there is an estimated 1.2 million people in Lagos living with HIV.

A study in 2013 found that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV

The pictures were taken in a Lagos slum, where girls as young as 14 entertain up to five clients per day

The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koene in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city

A woman stands next to an advert encouraging condom use, in a country where researchers found more needs to be done to change attitudes toward safe sex

The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koeneon in a Lagos slum named Badia.

There are currently an estimated 1.2million people in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, living with HIV.

He said his driver had quipped: ‘If you arrive by car, you can smell the HIV virus outside.’

A man speaks to a woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to survive

Studies have raised concerns over attitudes toward condom use in Nigeria

A woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to make ends meet

Sex workers often entertain up to five clients per day in the impoverished slums in Lagos

A study in 2013 found that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV

The pictures were taken in a Lagos slum, where girls as young as 14 entertain up to five clients per day

The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koene in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city A woman stands next to an advert encouraging condom use, in a country where researchers found more needs to be done to change attitudes toward safe sex A man speaks to a woman in the Badia slum in Lagos, where hundreds of women work in the sex trade in order to survive Studies have raised concerns over attitudes toward condom use in Nigeria Sex workers often entertain up to five clients per day in the impoverished slums in Lagos The photo series shows sex workers in the slum in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria The women agreed to be photographed by Ton Koene in the impoverished slum in Nigeria's largest city A woman adjusts her makeup in the Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria, where hundreds of women are working in the sex trade Sex workers charge each client between two and five dollars in the poverty-stricken district

A sex worker smokes a cigarette in the series of photographs taken by photographer Ton Koene The series of photographs were taken in the Badia slum in Lagos, Nigeria Sex workers are highly at risk from contracting HIV in Lagos, where an estimated 1.2 million people have the condition A man speaks to a woman in the poverty-stricken district in Lagos, where many women turn to the sex trade to make ends meet A woman stands in front of an advertisement encouraging condom use in Lagos, Nigeria A woman stands in a doorway in the Lagos slum, where many are driven to work in the sex trade in squalid conditions Poverty-stricken sex workers charge clients between two and five dollars, and often entertain up to five a day