They are no longer sex workers, declares Shawa
Principal Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) responsible for HIV and AIDS and Nutrition Mary Shawa told an AIDS Conference being held in Lilongwe that the name Sex Workers for women who ply their trade by selling their bodies is discriminatory and has therefore been phased out. Officially opening the conference dubbed “National Dialogue on HIV and AIDS and Most At Risk Populations in Malawi at Cresta Hotel Tuesday morning, Shawa said the vocabulary had now changed from sex workers – which is discriminatory – to “People who frequent public places.” “We moved from prostitute to
