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China’s prostitutes routinely extorted, abused by police, report says

Possession of condoms often is used as evidence of sex workers’ guilt, causing many prostitutes to avoid carrying them and elevating the risk of disease. Abuses by health agencies — such as coerced HIV testing and disclosure of HIV status — also have made women distrustful of health officials, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

Published
14 May 2013
From
Washington Post
HIV prevention policy
Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
Sex workers
Right to remain silent

The US Supreme Court should overturn the 2003 law that requires federally funded HIV/AIDS programmes abroad to denounce prostitution.

Published
09 May 2013
From
Nature
Sex workers
U.S. justices conflicted over AIDS funding case

Supreme Court justices appeared divided on Monday as they considered a challenge to a law requiring non-profit organizations to adopt an anti-prostitution policy in order to obtain federal funding for HIV/AIDS programs abroad.

Published
23 April 2013
From
Reuters
Finance and funding
Fights against AIDS, sex traffic collide at high court

Two worthy goals come into conflict on Monday at the Supreme Court: preventing the global spread of HIV/AIDS and discouraging the sex trafficking of women and girls.

Published
22 April 2013
From
USA Today
Epidemiology and behaviour
Mozambique mining boom brings fear of rising HIV infection rate

Coal boom adds to complications for health workers trying to stop spread of HIV among miners, truck drivers and sex workers.

Published
15 April 2013
From
The Guardian
Global health initiatives
Prostitution policy splits NGOs in top court AIDS case

A Supreme Court case that challenges a law requiring anti-prostitution policies for HIV/AIDS programs seeking federal money has generated a split among nonprofit groups that counsel sex workers overseas. The case involves a 2003 law that bars funding for groups that work on HIV/AIDS prevention but do not have a policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.

Published
10 April 2013
From
Reuters
Women
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
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