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Burkina Faso's `pleasure hospital' offers women sexual hope

In the dusty town of Bobo-Dioulasso in western Burkina Faso, young women in brightly-coloured dresses watch construction workers mix cement in the afternoon sun. As the workmen haul bricks across the building site, the women whisper excitedly.8:30 AM on May 21