Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

HETAUDA, July 24: She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows that every stranger who pays for her body could end her life. But she also knows their money is the only thing preventing her death.