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Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

Working with women in sex work for the last 10 years in rural South India has taught me that it is not HIV that is a priority in their lives but issues like violence, stigma and discrimination and uncertainties related to their children’s future. We organised a participatory workshop with sex workers to understand the extent of violence in these intimate relationships, including causes of violence.

Published
14 March 2013
From
Open Democracy
Women
Blame and HIV: views from Soroti town, Uganda

The government should address how its own officials understand HIV. Not doing so allows blame and stigma to flourish - and this puts more people, not less, at risk argues Williams Moi.

Published
08 February 2013
From
Key Correspondents
Global health initiatives
Supreme Court to hear free speech case on anti-prostitution rule

Congress requires groups receiving funds to fight HIV and AIDS globally to have a standard opposing prostitution. Justices will hear the case in spring.

Published
14 January 2013
From
Los Angeles Times
Tuberculosis and HIV
Tuberculosis and STD prevalence is different worry during EU presidency

Lithuania's EU Presidency during 2013 brings the spotlight on the country's very high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and TB.

Published
11 January 2013
From
Baltic Times
Sex workers
Vietnam’s move away from detaining sex workers

Sex workers in Vietnam are struggling to figure out their next steps after the government’s decision earlier this year to release them from compulsory detention centres that have been widely condemned for alleged human rights abuses.

Published
21 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Sex workers
New WHO guidelines urge decriminalization of sex work

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines - titled 'Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections for Sex Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries' - recommending, among other things, that countries should work towards decriminalizing sex work.

Published
19 December 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
Sex workers
Cellphones Reshape Prostitution in India, and Complicate Efforts to Prevent AIDS

Millions once bought sex in the narrow alleys of Kamathipura, a vast red-light district here. But prostitutes with inexpensive mobile phones are luring customers elsewhere, and that is endangering the astonishing progress India has made against AIDS.

Published
26 November 2012
From
New York Times
HIV prevention policy
Indonesia’s health minister shocked by her own failure

UNAIDS chief Michel Sidebe was in Jakarta just a couple of months ago. What did he talk about? Not the gay men, junkies, waria, rent boys and clients of hookers that make up four fifths of the Indonesian epidemic (the majority of other cases being in female sex wokers). No, he talked about the importance of protecting innocent women and babies through sexual education for young people, most of whom are at practically zero risk.

Published
23 November 2012
From
The Wisdom of Whores
Sex workers
Malawi sex workers unite in push for better health care

Malawi's estimated 20,000 sex workers have united to fight harassment and improve access to health care, launching a registered alliance on Friday.

Published
12 November 2012
From
Africa Review
PrEP
KENYA: Study finds high acceptability, challenges with PrEP use

Among populations at high risk of HIV, there is a high acceptance of pre-exposure prophylaxis - antiretroviral drugs use by HIV-negative people to reduce the risk of their acquiring HIV - a new Kenyan study has found.

Published
31 October 2012
From
IRIN Plus News
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