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Overview
However, the country has recently introduced some government codes, and has also started enforcing existing codes, such as a child code protecting the rights of children throughout the country, in order to help combat some of these problems.

Gender Inequality
Experts convened by the United Nations found that typically "all the responsibility" of the problems that are faced in the sex industry are usually placed on women. In response to the issues noted by this committee, the government of Togo has declared that July 31st is Women's Day throughout the country. Additionally, this may have been what encouraged them to enact on some of their new policies, such as actively enforcing laws that protect children against the sex trade. This committee noted that sex was a two person act and that the men who are typically the demand market for sex workers need to be examined too and held accountable for their actions.

Sexual health
A study in 2008 noted that as many as 60% of long truck drivers in Togo that were having sexual relations with sex workers were not using a condom during sex. Additionally, around 50% of the truck drivers interviewed stated that they had not been tested for HIV, which is a concerning statistic considering the prevalence of sexually-transmitted diseases in Togo.

Homosexual men, women, and couples do not receive the same access to the ability to be diagnosed and treated for a potential case of HIV/AIDS that heterosexual couples receive.

Human rights concerns
Another issue in Togo is that the laws do not protect well against child trafficking, and these children are usually sold in to the sex industry. Togo does not enforce the law that prevents selling children into sex slavery, and there is also no statutory rape law in Togo. Since 2007 the Togolese government has done a better job of raising awareness for people in Togo about the issues of child sexual exploitation and child prostitution. They released a code in 2007 which protected against the rights of children in certain areas of life, and this code led to the eventual release of hundreds of hundreds of child sex workers throughout the country of Togo, after they improved their efforts to enforce this code. Once these children were rounded up, they were properly taken care of, and tested for a variety of medical issues, mostly of mostly sexual health aspects.

Sex Trafficking
In 2005, in a raid in the capital city of Lome, over 200 people were arrested in a crackdown of underage sex trafficking, which was the first signal of a commitment to crack down on the issue by the Togolese government. Not only did the rescue the kids from child prostitution, the government's minister for child protection, Agneley Christine Mensah, vowed that the kids who were taken into custody would be looked after such that they can "acquire new trades and skills so that they can be integrated into normal social and economic life."