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Collective empowerment groups for stigmatised communities: US Agency for International Development , 2011; This AIDSTAR One case study series describes the work of SANGRAM, an NGO and a series of collective empowerment groups for stigmatised communities (sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgen...
HIV/AIDS prevention and health care among sex workers: C. Pimenta;S. Corrêa;I. Maksud / Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association), 2010; National STI/HIV/AIDS prevention policies and programmes directed at sex workers adopted in Brazil since the late 1980s have had significant positive effects in:...
HIV and sex workers' rights: N. Van Beelen;M. Ditmore / Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, 2007; This article, in Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, focuses on the relationship between HIV and sex workers’ rights. ...
Key principles of HIV programming with sex workers: International Planned Parenthood Federation , 2008; This short update from IPPF contains an article by Melissa Ditmore, the former coordinator of the International Network of Sex Work Projects. She outlines some key principles of HIV programming with s...
Sex workers defend their human rights and health: A.L. Crago / Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008; This report highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organised to defend their human rights and health. The groups featured in this report include: ...
What treatment as prevention means for sex workers: C. Overs / Paulo Longo Research Initiative, 2011; This article looks at the potential impact of partially effective, non-contraceptive HIV prevention methods on sex workers in the light of recent news that anti-retroviral treatment (ART) by people wi...
Rights-based responses to HIV that respect and involve sex workers: C. Overs;A. Hunter / Global Network of Sex Work Projects, 2010; ‘Making Sex Work Safe’ is a handbook, originally written by Cheryl Overs and Paulo Longo in 1996, which presents some of the knowledge and experience gained by projects involved in respond...
Human rights violations of sex workers in Africa: African Sex Worker Alliance, 2011; This report documents human rights violations experienced by female, male and transgender sex workers in four African countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe), and describes barriers they ...
Advocating for sex workers' rights in Kenya: Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya, 2008; This report details the abuses experienced by sex workers throughout the country, and analyses the policy framework that undermines sex workers' access to rights. Pervasive stigma and discrimination a...
Sex work and law: United Nations Population Fund , 2010; This thematic discussion paper for the Consultation on Sex Work and HIV in Asia and the Pacific captures many of the complex issues around sex work and law. ...