"Nicole, 16, stands in the doorway of one of the rooms where she meets clients in a brothel in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday July 17, 2013. Nicole started working as a sex worker after running away from home, where her mother used to beat her. She says she can have up to 10 or 20 clients in a day; each of them pays 1000 CFA (2$). ""When I started I went for a whole week without using condoms. I was new, I didn't know"", she says. ""Sometimes the police come to catch us. We have to pay them 3000, 5000 or 10,000 so that they leave us alone. Other times you have to sleep with them."" Nicole went to school up to grade 5."
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