ABSTRACT
Centro de Orientacion Integral (COIN) developed from a national concern in the Dominican Republic with the spread of AIDS and the HIV virus. From 1985, various steps were taken by the government to reach and educate sexual workers about HIV and AIDS and to improve public health. A large part of COIN's foundational work lay in researching the sex trade in the Dominican Republic for the creation of educational materials and out-reach methods suitable for the working populations. Return home was conditioned by various factors. Among them were that the women had to care for their children, that their work contracts overseas had expired or that they had been deported. Some ten percent of the migrants has returned home simply because they did not like the foreign country, and a few because they had made the money they had wanted.
