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Short Summary
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In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The toolkit is a collection of more than 130 easily-accessible documents, manuals, reports, and research studies, which are intended for use by people working with female, male and transgender sex workers. Included in the toolkit are practical 'how to' documents like 'Making Sex Work Safe', written by experienced sex worker groups to support programme managers in setting up and maintaining projects. 'Of Veshyas, vamps, whores and women' for example, is based on experiences from an Indian NGO and gives practical advice on how to build up a network of peer educators in brothels, deal with the brothel owners, set up condom distribution networks, and structure payment incentives for peer educators. The toolkit also includes valuable data and analysis which can be shared across regions and used to design better HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for sex workers. Each resource has been summarised to assist readers in deciding whether it is relevant to their particular needs.
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http://www.who.int/3by5/mediacentre/news28/en/
