After Somoza was deposed in 1979 by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)), one of their first actions was the destruction and burning of "a great number of brothels, bars and gambling houses".
[7] The scheme was organised by the Sunflowers Sex Workers’ Association and is part of a larger initiative that has trained 4,300 facilitators in the country.
The only country in the world that does not try and arrest them, where the activity is not criminalized.”[3] The judicial facilitators have the following tasks: With only 0.2 percent of the adult population estimated to be HIV-positive, Nicaragua has one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in Central America.
The onset of the epidemic was likely delayed by Nicaragua's 10-year civil war and the U.S.-led economic blockade, both of which left the country isolated for several years.
[8] A September 2005 study on HIV among commercial sex workers reported by UNAIDS demonstrated a prevalence of only 0.2 percent in that group.
[9] Child prostitution is widespread, particularly in Managua, port cities, along the Honduran and Costa Rican borders, and near highways.
[12] Every night, hundreds of teenage girls line the Masaya Highway commercial corridor on the capital's south side.
Victims’ family members are often complicit in their exploitation, and traffickers have reportedly increased recruitment activity on social media sites.
Nicaraguan women and children are subjected to sex trafficking in the RAAN and RAAS, where the lack of strong law enforcement institutions and a higher crime rate increase the vulnerability of the local population.