Question

Sex trafficking has implications on human as well as medical issues? You are a manger of a clinic which provides medical advice and treatment for sexual diseases. What are your duties and responsibilities if you find out you have patients who are the victims of Sex trafficking? Are you there just to provide advice and treatment or do something more?

Answer 1

Childrens and adolescences are the victims of sexual trafficking mainly. They are violence and abuse that result in long term physical, mental and emotional harm to victims. Health care professionals should be able to recognise past, present and potential victims by commercial sexual exploitation and sexual trafficking among the population. Failure to those results in increased risk of victims.

The guide for health care sector provides a information that is more relevant to individual children and adolescents for prevention and treatment of injuries, illness and diseases. The professionals including physicians, nurses, mental health professionals etc should give urgent care in emergency situations. The guide that summaries overview of risk factors and consequences, barriers for identification of victims and survivors, opportunities to overcome these barriers etc. every professional should have good knowledge of the guide issued.