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Short Summary
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Act up-Paris is an activist and a lobby group based in Paris. For them fighting AIDS also means fighting all kinds of discrimination, putting pressure on government and raising public awareness at the same time. This online publication includes an article on access to care and prevention for female HIV-positive sex-workers. It points out that health providers must be aware of sex-workers' work routine and time schedules in order to offer good care and treatment to the patients, and they should not assume that sex-workers will stop working when diagnosed HIV-positive. Another article in the publication discusses the ethics of medical trials on sex-workers. It explains that a new drug was tested in Cambodia on a group of sex-workers. The communication between researchers and sex-workers was very poor and researchers were often lying deliberately to the participants to hide potential side effects of the drug. The need for an honest flow of information between participants and researchers is essential both for the success of medical trials and for the protection of the participants.
Original title in French: Travailleuses du sexe et VIH.
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http://www.actupparis.org/article2083.html
