For instance, gold-mining sites tend to have high concentrations of men between the ages of 20 and They serve as a magnet for female commercial sex workers FCSWs , especially if education and employment opportunities for girls and women are limited.
These mining sites have their own social organization, with a private system of law and order. These are predominantly male societies, with few women present.
There is sexual interaction among members of different Indian communities, between mine workers and female members of Indian communities, and between FCSWs and Indian males.
Besides the overall social, economic, and cultural context, native populations also struggle with a lack of knowledge and understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior; language problems; and limited access to health care facilities and health care workers in the dominant, Creole culture 3, 5 ,7.
For brevity, this gold-mining region will be referred to as the "El Callao-Las Claritas area"; Tumeremo and El Dorado are located between those two communities. Contrasida chose to focus its intervention efforts on the region around El Callao, Tumeremo, El Dorado, and Las Claritas for a number of reasons.
