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‘Our lives matter: sex workers unite for health and rights’
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008This 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:DocumentTreatment as prevention: how might the game change for sex workers?
Paulo Longo Research Initiative, 2011This 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 with HIV substantially protects their HIV-uninfected sexual partners from acquiring HIV infection, with a 96 percent reduction in risk of HIV transmission.DocumentSANGRAM’s collectives: engaging communities in India to demand their rights
US Agency for International Development, 2011This 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 transgender individuals) in six districts of southern Maharashtra and northern Karnataka.OrganisationAssociação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association) (ABIA)
Fundada em 1987, a Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA) é uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos.DocumentBrazilian national response to HIV/AIDS amongst sex workers
Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association), 2010National STI/HIV/AIDS prevention policies and programmes directed at sex workers adopted in Brazil since the late 1980s have had significant positive effects in:DocumentWorking from a rights-based approach to health service delivery to sex workers
Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, 2007This article, in Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, focuses on the relationship between HIV and sex workers’ rights. It outlines the elements of a rights-based approach to sex work and includes information on how the criminalisation of sex work and stigma and discrimination increase vulnerability.DocumentGlobal health initiatives and delivery of health care: the case of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2009This study aims at assessing the impact of Global Fund-supported activities on the delivery of non-HIV services, health worker availability, workload, incentives and motivation and drug management, focussing on Malawi.DocumentPan-India survey of sex workers
Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha, 2011This summary, published by the Center for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM), presents the preliminary results of the first pan-India survey on female sex workers. The survey pools a national sample divided by geographies, languages, sites of operation, migratory patterns, incomes, and cultures amongst other variables.DocumentAn exploratory study of the social contexts, practices and risks of men who sell sex in southern and eastern Africa
Oxfam, 2011This research presented explored the social contexts, life experiences, vulnerabilities and sexual risks experienced by men who sell sex in Southern and Eastern Africa, with a focus on five countries; Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.Document“I expect to be abused and I have fear”: sex workers’ experiences of human rights violations and barriers to accessing healthcare in four African countries
African Sex Worker Alliance, 2011This 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 face to accessing health services.Pages