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Now, she sleeps quite light of day and sells her skinny, 14-year-old body at night for $3 an hour.

“There are so many of us girls on the streets these days,” Janet, dressed in a black miniskirt and white blouse, told The Associated Press in Eldoret, a western Kenya town that was a flashpoint of this year’s postelection decisive turn.

Prostitution and sexual exploiting. see the verb are on the go in the summon up of the violence, which killed more than 1,000 people, eviscerated the economy and forced tens of thousands of children to withdrawal train, doctors and man’s rights groups reply.

Although no compact figures are take advantage of, medical experts say they fear the increase in juvenile prostitutes — known in the present life as “twilight girls” — will undermine gains in the fight against AIDS.

“With time, we’ll start feeling the impact of this conflict without ceasing HIV and AIDS,” declared Teresa Omondi, head of the Gender Violence Recovery Center at Nairobi Women’s Hospital.

A recent report by means of gender-violence center sounded the alarm.

“There is already great fear that the gains made to reduce the prevalence of HIV in Kenya would be thrown away,” it declared.

Kenya’s National AIDS Control Council in like manner has launched a study into the effects of sexual violence such as party rapes.

Government speaker Alfred Mutua did not this moment return calls for make comments Thursday.

Several young prostitutes interviewed by the AP aforesaid they were having sex without condoms to attract customers now that so many more girls are on the streets.

“We use condoms greatest in quantity of the time,” said Milka Muthoni, 17, who dropped out of educate this year. “I know it’s a risky business. At times I have gone to the hospital through injuries and venereal diseases. But I bring forth no other options.”

Milka, who in addition lives in Eldoret, said her parents kicked her out when they learned she was a prostitute. But now, she says, “I accept been shopping for them so they no longer ask me where I get the money from.”

The bloodshed following the disputed presidential vote Dec. 27 marked some of the darkest times since Kenya’s exemption from arbitrary control from Britain in 1963. The rioting and ethnic clashes exposed deep divisions over land and economic disparity.

A power-sharing deal six months ago between President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, who was named prime minister under the agreement, ended much of the killing. But Kenya lost up to $1 billion because of the turmoil and thousands remain displaced.

Untold numbers of children consider not returned to class or have dropped out because they cannot afford school fees after their parents were killed or lost jobs.

For Janet, returning to school was not an option — it burned to the country in the violence.

She had been living in Eldoret’s displacement camp for a month when she noticed that her dear companion, Nyambura, always had food and neat clothes. Nyambura confided that she had been selling herself — and invited Janet along to the pub.

“I was reluctant but that Nyambura convinced me that the men would pay us,” Janet said. “I had never even had alcohol before, but I was beyond hope for circulating medium so I followed my friend.”

She was paid about $18 and used the money to buy fare for her parents and six siblings. She tells her family she has a do job-work in town and they don’t ask her specifics.

“My parents were poor even before the violence,” she said. “Now that I’m on the streets, on good days, I get up to 2,000 Kenya shilling ($40) after sleeping with five or six men.”

She has no hope of returning to school. Her parents are out of work, and Janet’s contributions are vital to her family.

“At first, this job was torture to me,” Kimani said. “Sleeping with these men is terrible, and sometimes they are unfinished and hurt me. But with time, I have gotten used to it.”

Prostitution has lengthy been a problem in Kenya, especially on the tourist friendly strand.

Agnetta Mirikau, a child protection specialist with UNICEF Kenya, said the increase is specifically noticeable in towns where the violence was the defeat, like as Eldoret, Naivasha and Nakuru. Eldoret was the site of a horrific invade after the power to choose, when a mob torched a ecclesiastical authority filled with the vulgar, killing dozens.

“Adults are now preying on these kids,” Mirikau said. “People have no income, children have been displaced and they want to help supplement their parents’ income. If there is no food to eat and they’re responsible for their siblings they go out and make standard of value for food.”

Eldoret Mayor Sammy Rutto recently ordered police to crack down on prostitution after hearing girls as young in the manner that 12 were spotted in bars.

“This is a trade we cannot give,” he said. “This perversion will definitely tend to an increase in the spread of AIDS, and many parents determine lose their children.” Nairobi, Kenya.