Human Trafficking Consequences

Human trafficking has had a huge presence globally over the years. From the Greek, Romans, the middle Ages, and up until today. People have been subjected to different types of physical and sexual abuse. Human trafficking has many consequences which in the end after all are said and done it has caused long-term damage to not only them but those who they let in their lives.
First, the spread of HIV/AIDS is one of the consequences of human trafficking. Many victims of human trafficking are physically and sexually abused. Trafficked women are not often able to protect themselves and lack access to education about HIV/AIDS. According to Mary De Chesney “As customers tend to prefer sex without using condoms, it is not unusual for women to contract sexually transmitted infections. Beyrer and Stacho- Wiak talk about the direct health consequences of commercial sex as having increased risk of being exposed to STIs, HIV, and sexual trauma with the long-term consequences of such including …show more content…
People who haven’t been through what the victims been through can’t understand what it feels like to be taken captive for many years’ beaten, rape and stabbed. Many people may say they understand what it’s like but they will never be able to relate to the circumstances. While Victims can find it difficult to comprehend what has happened to them, or to discuss it with or explain it to others. Victims may appear to those around them, even support persons, to be uncooperative, irritable, hostile, aggressive or ungrateful. The stigma attached to them as victims has been shown to have a significant and ongoing impact on their lives, including in the trauma experienced by the individual victim as well as the possibility of physical rejection from family or community. The long-term consequences of human trafficking for the individual are complex and depend on many factors, with no guarantee of