[4][5] Senator Thuli Mswane[6] and NGOs Eswatini AIDS Support Organisation (SASO), Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Mpumalanga Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have recommended that prostitution be legalised in Eswatini, in order to allow it to be regulated to reduce harm to the prostitutes and limit the spread of HIV.
[15] After European settlement, westernisation, the development of urban centres and migrant labour, especially in the mining areas, saw a rise in prostitution.
[3] During a 2007 survey, sex workers said their clients included business people, church pastors, Government officials (MPs, cabinet ministers), lawyers, lecturers, police officers, soldiers, foreigners, tourists, doctors and truck drivers.
[14] HIV/AIDS in Eswatini was first reported in 1986 but has since reached epidemic proportions due in large part to cultural beliefs which discourage safe-sex practices.
Some Swazi women are forced into prostitution in South Africa and Mozambique after voluntarily migrating in search of work.