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Sex Workers & HIV/AIDS
Overview
Articles
- HIV Scandal in Gay Porn Industry (March 4, 2008)
From BBC News
- Baltimore Sun Series Examines Link Between Commercial Sex Work, HIV Transmission in Baltimore (November 6, 2007)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Girls, Women Trafficked in Asia for Commercial Sex Work Emerging as HIV/AIDS Risk Factor, Report Says (August 24, 2007)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Sex, Videotape and ... No Condoms? (July/August 2007)
An inside look at an illegal porn operation featuring Black and Latino men.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Size Matters: The Number of Prostitutes and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic (June 20, 2007)
Report finds a link between the number of sex workers and the number of people living with HIV, and warns that the findings raise larger issues about the need for female empowerment.
In PLoS ONE
- Arizona: Program Helps Prostitutes Get Off Drugs, the Street (August 4, 2005)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Just Say Não (May 30, 2005)
A look at Brazil's defiance of American rules regarding sex workers.
In The Nation
- Pennsylvania: Red Cross Targets Sex Industry Workers With HIV/AIDS Education and Protection (July 18, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- In Baltimore, New Ambitions on the Street (June 3, 2003)
You Are Never Alone is a program that helps sex workers reduce their health risks and improve their quality of life.
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Detroit Program Helps Women Exit Sex Work (May 28, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Oregon: Sex Workers' Advocacy Service Closes (May 28, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Efforts to Control Arizona-Mexico Border Prostitution Ineffective, Experts Say (May 5, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Making It in Business (September/October 2002)
How Lynn Bridges transformed herself from a prostitute and an ex-con into a legitimate entrepreneur.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- California: Prosecutor Seeks Lengthy Prison Term for HIV-Infected Woman (July 23, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Child Prostitution a Global Problem (April 22, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The "Pill" Linked to Aggressive HIV (March 1, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 100% Condom Use Programme in Entertainment (Sex Worker) Establishments (PDF) (2001)
From World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office
- AIDS in the Twilight Zone (March/April 2000)
An interview with HIV-positive recovering drug addicts who have worked for many years in the sex industry.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Workers' Rights (Winter 1998/1999)
Sex workers in Calcutta make demands.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
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