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Chile’s Sex Workers Shift Online Amid Virus Lockdown

Chile’s Sex Workers Shift Online Amid Virus Lockdown

When the nightclub in which she touted for business in southern Chile was shut down by the authorities as the new coronavirus spread, sex worker Camila Hormazabal was left without access to her sole source of income. The heavily-tattooed 24-year-old had been picking up clients in the downtown bar in Concepcion for four years, making […]

The Sex Workers On the Frontlines Of The HIV Response In Malawi

The Sex Workers On the Frontlines Of The HIV Response In Malawi

An MSF programme in four districts in southern Malawi is helping thousands of women who earn their living from sex work to overcome barriers to health services, in part by training and employing sex workers as health workers in their communities. Names have been changed, unless otherwise indicated. Bernadette lost both her parents when she […]

This Ruling On Sex Work In South Africa Is Bad For HIV Prevention

This Ruling On Sex Work In South Africa Is Bad For HIV Prevention

Numerous sex work, public health and gender advocacy organisations have expressed dismay at the recommendations of the long-awaited report on sex work compiled by the South African Law Reform Commission. The report recommends that consensual adult sex work continue to be criminalized or alternatively, that partial criminalisation is implemented. Partial criminalisation would mean that the […]