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Year
2011
This is a summary of the PEPFAR and Sex Work briefing paper. PEPFAR has made anti-retroviral treatment (ART) available for many people, including sex workers. However, PEPFAR funding contracts with organisations specify that a certain amount of this money be spent on abstinence programming. Contracts include a clause that the organisation accepting funding is opposed to prostitution. This has been called the 'anti-prostitution pledge' or 'anti-prostitution loyalty oath'.
Contents include:
- How the pledge affects sex worker organisations and HIV programming with sex workers
- Effects on programming and organising
- Effects on sex workers; and looks at what can be done
- Effects on sex workers
- What can be done?
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