According to the Indian Express newspaper, a study estimates that prostitutes are regularly visited by 10 percent of the more than 223 million sexually active men in India. Prostitutes who are working in large urban areas and who are found to be infected are usually sent back to their home villages where ignorance of the disease and medical facilities that are poorer than those in the cities are causing rapid acceleration of the spread of the disease.
साउथॆम्पटन के विश्‍वविद्यालय के एक प्रोफ़ॆसर ने एक संभावित कारण को समझाया: “युवतियाँ अपनी नौकरियों में सक्षम होना चाहती हैं और फिर भी परिवार चलाने की ज़िम्मेदारी उठाना चाहती हैं ।