Key population category: Sex Workers

Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations (2015 supplement)

Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations (2015 supplement)
This tool supplements the World Health Organization Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations; it provides technical guidance to assist countries in planning and monitoring efforts to address HIV among key populations: men who have sex with men, people in prisons and other closed settings, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people. More specifically, this document provides guidance on monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the comprehensive package of interventions to address HIV among key populations.
Year of publication: 
2015
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HIV and Young People Who Sell Sex: Technical Brief

HIV and Young People Who Sell Sex: Technical Brief
This technical brief is one in a series addressing four young key populations. It is intended for policy-makers, donors, service-planners, service-providers and community- led organizations. This brief aims to catalyse and inform discussions about how best to provide services, programmes and support for young people who sell sex. It offers a concise account of current knowledge concerning the HIV risk and vulnerability of young people who sell sex; the barriers and constraints they face to appropriate services; examples of programmes that may work well in addressing their needs and rights; and approaches and considerations for providing services that both draw upon and build the strengths, competencies and capacities of young people who sell sex.
Year of publication: 
2015
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Formative Evaluations of the Gender Equality and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities: Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Formative Evaluations of the Gender Equality and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities: Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Between May and August 2011, the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation conducted formative evaluations of the Gender Equality (GES) and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities (SOGI) Strategies of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund). This executive summary sets out the Foundation’s key recommendations. The full report describes the evaluation process, findings, and recommendations in further detail.
Year of publication: 
2011
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Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: North America and the Caribbean Regional Report

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: North America and the Caribbean Regional Report
This document summarises the experience of sex workers through examples of best practices that serve to share the development of politically influential tools; to strengthen sex workers’ group efforts to become effectively involved in the development of policies and programmes that help to amplify their voices both at regional and international levels. It also documents the access of sex workers to treatment, as well as the impact of HIV programmes which fail to include a human rights-based approach, such as highly coercive or mandatory HIV programmes, as well as the lack of access to affordable and effective treatment for HIV and STIs.
Year of publication: 
2014
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Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: Latin America Regional Report

Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming: Latin America Regional Report
This document summarizes the process for conducting the documenting of good practices led by sex workers. Initiation, planning and delivery of work took place between June and December 2013. This documentation of good practices in HIV programming for sex workers includes access to treatment and other priority issues that need to be addressed in each region.
Year of publication: 
2014
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The Voices and Demands of Positive Sex Workers: Briefing Paper 06

The Voices and Demands of Positive Sex Workers: Briefing Paper #06
HIV prevention efforts are being scaled up globally, to target sex workers as a key affected population in the HIV response. The voices and experiences of sex workers living with HIV are too often rendered invisible: this means that the additional needs and rights of sex workers living with HIV are often overlooked in forums that support the rights of general populations of people living with HIV. This paper sets out the demands of positive sex workers articulated by sex workers themselves.
Year of publication: 
2014
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