ABSTRACT
I first visited Uganda in March 1993.1 had been collaborating with the Tanzanian psychiatrist Dr. Lucy Nkya and a contractor from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), (now Dr.) Anne Outwater, on a study of sex workers in Morogoro, a town inland from the coast of Tanzania. People here and in many parts of Africa initially blamed AIDS on witchcraft, but by 1993 most realized it was a sexually transmitted disease. The scholarly literature on prosti tution in this country was scant. We did a survey in a slum compound with some two hundred sex workers who offered short-time sex for about forty U.S. cents a tumble, mostly to itinerant truck drivers-the very subpopulation that had spread HIV all over the continent.
