Working with brothel owners to promote HIV prevention : challenges and future directions
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Abstract:
Many organizations that are working with sex workers have learned that it is ineffective to provide HIV and other health services to them if they do not consider – and address – sex workers’ work environments, where many cases of human rights violations can be found. Thus, they gradually move into rights-based activities. By reframing sex workers’ health as a rights issue, the focus of HIV prevention work with sex workers shifts from individual-level behaviour change communication to comprehensive development work aimed at sex workers’ empowerment, participation and self-organizing. It also opens the way to hold governments and non-governmental organizations accountable for denying rights to sex workers. This issue of Exchange magazine focuses on the relationship between HIV and sex workers’ rights. Most of the articles in this issue have been produced in the framework of the Oxfam Novib KIC Project. According to UNAIDS’ 2006 report on the global AIDS epidemic, the environment in which sex work is conducted assists the spread of HIV. While access to all categories of sex workers is challenging, those most easily reached with health information and services work in brothels, provided that brothel managers and/or owners permit access. This article is about dealing with brothel owners and managers.
Authors:
Gruber von Kerenshazy, J.
Country:
India
,
Thailand
Category:
Practice
End Page:
15
Serial number:
1
ISSN:
[1871-7551]
Journal:
Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender
Keywords:
HIV and AIDS
,
disease prevention and control
Language:
eng
Organization:
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
Year:
2007
Region:
South Asia
,
Southeast Asia
Right:
© 2007 KIT
Subject:
Health and Nutrition
Start Page:
14
Title:
Working with brothel owners to promote HIV prevention : challenges and future directions