Research for Sex Work, Issue 13: HIV and Sex Work, the View from 2012

This issue of research for sex work reflects a small shift. Here, HIV and sex work don’t mean an array of epidemiologically oriented studies, but the frame for critiques of and questions about policy, laws, and programmes. Articles not written by sex workers themselves base their conclusions on what sex workers say. Here, no one tells sex workers how to run their lives.

Year of publication:

2012

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Global Fund Updates CCM Guidelines and Requirements for 2015: New Opportunities for Key Population Advocacy

This alert provides information and practical guidance for civil society organizations and key population networks on the updated country coordinating mechanism (CCM) Eligibility Requirements which came into effect January 1, 2015. The alert is also available in French, Russian, and Spanish.

Year of publication:

2015

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The Blueprint for the Provision of Comprehensive Care for Trans People and Trans Communities

The Blueprint is a document with far-reaching potential and applications in trans health and human rights in the region. The purpose of the Blueprint is to strengthen and enhance the policy-related, clinical, and public health responses for trans people in Asia and the Pacific. The primary audience for the Blueprint is health providers, policymakers and governments. The information within the Blueprint could also serve donors, bi- and multilateral organisations and trans and other civil society organisations.

Year of publication:

2015

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Report on the TB and HIV Financing Activist Workshop

Report: HIV and TB Financing Activist Workshop

This March 2015 meeting held in Johannesburg was a forum for information-sharing and advocacy agenda-setting through lively debates and discussions. The purpose of the meeting was to strengthen key population advocacy for the best use of Global Fund resources and sustainable funding for HIV and TB in Botswana, Malawi, and Tanzania. The meeting culminated with representatives from each country developing (either joint or by organization) a peer- and facilitator-reviewed advocacy work plan that formed part of their application for direct support through a closed request for proposals from ITPC/ARASA.

Year of publication:

2015

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Working Together: a Community-driven Guide to Meaningful Involvement in National Responses to HIV

Working Together is a guide to increase and improve the meaningful involvement of the community sector in all aspects of national AIDS responses. Meaningful involvement is about much more than community groups being invited to or included in meetings. It is inclusive and participatory in all stages and at all levels of the AIDS response. Meaningful involvement is also creative and effective and reflects the ground-breaking and risk-taking approaches developed by the community sector. It is non-stigmatizing and non-discriminatory and rights-based. Furthermore, it recognizes and adheres to international principles and commitments.

Year of publication:

2015

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Justice Programs for Public Health: A Good Practice Guide

Justice Programs for Public Health: A Good Practice Guide is a comprehensive tool both for justice organizations and funders interested in addressing pressing public health needs, and public health groups and funders that recognize justice is as critical to public health as medicine.

Year of publication:

2015

Economic Empowerment Programmes for Sex Workers: Africa Regional Report

This regional report evaluates both successful and failed economic empowerment programmes by sex worker-led organisations and non-sex worker-led organisations. The aim of the report was to document the lessons learnt and good practice examples to help build and strengthen the capacity of sex worker organisations working to promote the human rights of sex workers and to document sex worker-led responses in Africa. The report documents 7 case studies of economic empowerment programmes in 6 African countries: Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Nigeria; and Uganda.

Each of the case studies includes a discussion on the factors that contributed to a programme’s success or failure.

Year of publication:

2015

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The Right(s) Evidence: Sex Work, Violence, and HIV in Asia

123 peer-to-peer in-depth qualitative interviews with female, male and transgender sex workers and key informants was carried out in Indonesia (Jakarta), Myanmar (Yangon), Nepal (Kathmandu) and Sri Lanka (Colombo). “The research provides sound evidence that the violence that sex workers experience denies them their fundamental human rights and contributes to the spread of HIV,” said Meena Saraswathi Seshu, from Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation, one of the co-authors of the report.

Year of publication:

2015

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