India: The Sex Workers
June 24, 2004
21m
How girls and women sold into sex work were caught in India’s AIDS crisis
India: The Sex Workers
June 24, 2004
21m
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Girls and women in India’s red-light districts, some of them sold into sex work by their own families, were forced to navigate their country’s AIDS crisis. Some of them decided to fight back. Their stories unfold in this 2004 report from Raney Aronson-Rath, now FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer.
India: The Sex Workers was re-released digitally in June 2026 as part of an ongoing effort to make FRONTLINE’s archive widely accessible for streaming. The documentary originally aired as part of FRONTLINE/World, a special FRONTLINE series that ran from 2002-2010 and was developed in partnership with GBH in Boston and KQED in San Francisco.
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