Myanmar's sex worker clinics offer solace from stigma
by Alex Delamare, 23 May 2011. When Thida Win contracted HIV after selling her body on the Yangon streets, it was her fellow sex workers that she turned to, not Myanmar’s crumbling health service. The Top project, run almost entirely by those in the sex trade, gave her treatment, a place to be herself away from the dual stigma of HIV and prostitution — and eventually a job. “I am now a health worker for my community and I can forget I am positive. I am so proud to work for the programmes, I will work for them for my
