By night the market is shelter to thousands of Bangalore's poor. It is where many of the sex workers of Bangalore live and work.

Once the deal has been agreed she will find a location near the city market where she can take her client. This is usually a public toilet but at night the communal sleeping areas are used.

The Society for People's Action for Development (SPAD) distribute free condoms to these men and women.

The condom boxes are located in the public toilets and can be accessed 24 hours a day.

Almost all of the women have a common interest, they are wives and mothers. They work as sex workers in order to feed and educate their children in the hope that they will have a better life.

This woman works as a pimp. It is her role to care for the women that work for her.

This is Kanaka. She is an orphan from a rural town in Karnataka State. She was snatched from the street and trafficked into the Bangalore sex industry.

Naheera runs the brothel where Kanaka was forced to live and work. Kanaka was just fourteen years old when she arrived in Bangalore. Less than a year later she gave birth to her first child. As Kanaka was living in the brothel at the time, she was forced to sell her baby to a local family for Rs.5000 (£65/$100).

Naheera's son lives in the brothel with his mother.

Padma has lived in nine homes in the past year. Landlords in Bangalore rarely lease property to unmarried women. If they suspect a woman of sex work she is swiftly evicted. Padma works in order to support her alcoholism.

Gulnaz contracted the HIV virus from her husband.

This is Hazarauddin. He is Gulnaz's son and is HIV-negative.

Gulnaz's husband contracted the HIV virus from a sex worker: her sister Akthas.

Both sisters are now HIV-positive and continue to work in the sex industry to support their family.

These women are waiting near Bangalore City Hospital for a treatment clinic to open.

This woman was lying in pain in the street. Her fellow sex workers nursed her until the clinic opened.

Nagarathna is a sex worker and is HIV-positive. She recently gave birth to her first child. Drugs can now prevent an unborn child from contracting HIV from its mother. Nagarathna was unable to reach the hospital as she went into labour to collect the drugs she needed to save her child's life.

Nagarathna gave birth here in her small hut. Her child died at just two weeks old and a few days before this photo was taken. Those born with HIV rarely survive childhood. Their undeveloped immune systems are especially vulnerable to infections.

Saraswathi is a single mother. She works to support her two young children. When she separated from her partner she could not return to her own family. To do so would bring shame upon them.

Chalu is twenty one years old and a transgender sex worker. She has considered herself to be female since she was eleven years old.

These transgender sex workers live in a Hamam (bath house) on the outskirts of Bangalore. Their clients are some of the many truck drivers who pass through the city. Truck drivers and sex workers are considered to be at the highest risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.

Akila lives and works in a Hamam (bath house). She is a qualified civil engineer. When she became openly female, she was forced out of her profession.

Akila now begs for money in the morning and works in the Hamam for the rest of the day.

Sandhiya lives and works with Akila in the Hamam.