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Kenyan sex workers celebrate their rights

Kenyan sex workers, drawn from different cities, converged at Tononoka Social Hall in the Coastal town of Mombasa to celebrate the March 3rd International Sex Workers Rights Day. This day is celebrated since 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. It has been designated to highlight the human rights challenges, success and failures facing sex workers. The organizers of the event, the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA), in collaboration with the Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP), hailed the event as a milestone for sex workers in Kenya who face challenges in

Fiji: Law Enforcement Approach to Sex Work Falls Short

Nigeria. Professor advocates registration of #sexworkers http://t.co/AOCLjpxY Gridlock: Labor, migration, and human trafficking in Dubai. Interesting discussion on #sexwork and trafficking http://t.co/5nxxsltv Kenya. Study finds lack of a male guardian associated with female entry into #sexwork in an urban settlement http://t.co/j2dEfptk Identifying the HIV Transmission Bridge: Which Men Are Having Unsafe Sex with Female #Sexworkers & Their Own Wives ? http://t.co/AdXwO2mR Australia Major conference on #sexworker rights, HIV to hear from Della Bosca – Gay News Network http://t.co/9GS3BZHv

2011 Report of UNAIDS Advisory Group on Sex Work – GREAT NEWS

Editorial The Report of the UNAIDS Advisory Group on Sex Work has been revised. PLRI reported that, ‘The report contains some very good material as well as evidence of the compromises sex workers rights advocates must accept if they to reach consensus with UN and government agencies.’ Among other things, the report endorsed human rights abuses in several countries including forced medical procedures (which is forbidden under the Convention on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment) and confinement under curfew in brothels (Nevada). After my letter to the sex workers on the NSWP list these unacceptable aspects of the report were removed

Prevalence of & knowledge, attitude & practices towards HIV & sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh

As part of the baseline survey carried out during 2005-06, biological and behavioural data were generated on about 3200 female sex workers (FSWs), from eight districts of Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. This study describes the relationship between socio-demographic and behavioural factors with consistent condom use (CCU) and HIV among FSWs in AP. Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among female sex workers (FSW) in eight districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, using conventional cluster sampling and time-location cluster sampling. Key risk behaviours and STIs related to the spread of HIV were assessed. Blood samples were collected to detect syphilis, Herpes

Preventing HIV in sex work in Sex Work Settings in Sub Saharan Africa

Sex work news is out! http://t.co/trhWQTU2 @ellie_dyer Hello, will you be tweeting thoughout the trial ? If not, who is good to follow ? Kristof calls #sexwork a marketing channel for traffickers. At least he says it, many act on it without saying it. http://t.co/6Ko2QPM1 Phillipines; Not being ‘documented’ has a role in the oppression of transgender #sexworkers http://t.co/w8kO97fG Violence Against Chinese Female #Sexworkers in Hong Kong: From Understanding to Prevention http://t.co/8nwmi3ji

Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in low- and middle-income countries.

Evaluation of a targeted HIV prevention programme among female commercial sex workers in the south of Thailand

An article in Sex Transm Inf 1998; 74: 54-58. Objective: To evaluate a targeted HIV prevention programme among female commercial sex workers (CSWs) in the south of Thailand. Subjects and methods: A pretest-post-test comparison group study was carried out in Sungai Kolok and Betong between June and December 1994. In June 408 CSWs were entered in Sungai Kolok (the intervention area) and 343 CSWs were enrolled in Betong (the comparison area). In December 1994, 416 women were enrolled in Sungai Kolok and 342 in Betong. Of these women 37% (n=283) also participated in the June survey. All women completed an

Does HIV testing reduce transmission risks in the market for commercial sex?

The descriptive epidemiology of male sex workers in Pakistan: a biological and behavioural examination

In this study in Pakistan 3350 male and transgender sex workers were surveyed, of which 2694 were included in the study. The average age of respondents was 24.1 years (SD 6.3), and the average duration of sex work was 7.5 years (SD 5.9). Respondents averaged 30.9 (SD 2.7) paid receptive anal sex acts in the month prior to their interview, while 21.5% reported using a condom during their last occurrence of paid anal sex. Of those surveyed, HIV prevalence was 5.4 per 1000; notably, no HIV-positive respondents reported any injection drug use. Finally, intercity heterogeneity was observed on demographic, sex work and risk behaviour

Recognize sex work as legitimate work

An article by Reynaga, E. in the HIV/AIDS Policy Law Review, 2008 Dec;13(2-3):97-8. It is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation of Elena Reynaga’s plenary address at the International AIDS Conference. The leader of the Latin American sex workers rights movement Elena Reynaga argues that it is not sex work per se that makes sex workers vulnerable to HIV, but the policies that repress them. In this article, which is based on her presentation at a plenary session of the Mexico International AIDS Conference, Reygana describes how policies and law deprives sex workers of their rights and subject them to physical and sexual

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