Oscar David Hernandez ‘La Morelia’ is a transsexual commercial sex worker.
When she was nine years old she was kicked out of her family house because of being gay and since then she is working in the streets of San Pedro Sula. She is HIV positive and under (ART) Anti Retroviral Therapy. Morelia has suffered multiple abuses since she started working as a comercial sex worker at the age of 9. She has been shot seven times, beaten by the police, injured by knife, assaulted, and run over by a car.
Photograph by Pep Bonet / Noor.
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Posted by Positive Lives on 2009-12-08 07:44:51
Tagged: , Hiv Aids , Central and Latin America , Youth , Transsexual , comercial sex worker , San Pedro Sula , Honduras , Positive Lives
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