"...Moe Wai, a pretty 20-year-old Burmese, traveled to Ruili, a Chinese border town, from her home in Rangoon?s South Okkalapa township in 1997. She rapidly found work as a prostitute, touting for trade on Ruili?s infamous Jiegang Road. Two years after taking up the sex trade she discovered she was HIV-positive. AIDS then took its toll, and last October she died. It?s estimated that around 100 young women from Burma work as prostitutes on Jiegang Road, offering their services to a clientele of traders, truck drivers and drug traffickers from Mandalay, Lashio, Myitkyina and other Burmese cities, as well as from China. A further 100 Burmese sex workers operate in the nearby town of Jiegong, which directly borders Muse in Burma..."