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Court-based research: collaborating with the justice system to enhance STI services for vulnerable women in the US http://t.co/3vEaFQVO

The fractal queerness of non-heteronormative migrant #sexworkers in the UK by Nick Mae http://t.co/X7oGFeDI

‘only 31% of the sample of indirect sex workers reported having been engaged in commercial sex in the last 12 months’

Old but good. Violence and Exposure to HIV among #sexworkers in Phnom Penh http://t.co/rkrRGiBa

Someone is Wrong on the Internet: #sex workers’ access to accurate information http://t.co/aMSXhygd

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Malawi

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre and the Centre for the Development of People will be filing a challenge to the mandatory HIV testing of sex workers in Mwanza, Malawi. The applicants, 11 sex workers, were arrested by police while at a local restaurant, taken to a local public hospital, and subjected to an HIV test without their consent. The test results were announced publicly in court by the Magistrate and they were found guilty of spreading venereal disease. The Magistrate ordered those not from Mwanza to leave the locality. A news story on PlusNews that explores plans to offer sex

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

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