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{"Image ImageDescription": "TO GO WITH World-AIDS-India-prostitution,FEATURE BY PHIL HAZLEWOOD  Savitah, a member of the Indian hijra community -or commonly called eunuch - washes her face at her home in Madanayakana Halli on the outskirts of the southern city of Bangalore on November 18, 2008. Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.  The spread of HIV in India is in part due to unsafe sexual practices among India's 7.7 million truckers who contract the virus after sex with prostitutes, passing it on when they sleep with their unsuspecting wives back home or even co-drivers. The Bhoruka Charitable Trust, a local organisation supported by the Gates Foundation that works a 10-kilometre (six-mile) stretch of the nearby highway, telling truckers about safe sex.  The world marks International AIDS Day on December 1. . AFP PHOTO/PEDRO UGARTE (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP via Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2008 AFP"}