Women With a Vision is honored to be one of the featured organizations in the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)’s new report entitled, “Good Practice in Sex Worker-Led HIV Programming.”
NSWP is a leading organization in the sex worker rights’ movement, working to uphold the voices of sex workers globally and to connect regional networks advocating for the rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers. The organization advocates for rights-based health and social services, freedom from abuse and discrimination, and self determination for sex workers.
There are four case studies of sex worker-led HIV programming featured in the new report, including the Guyana Sex Work Coalition, Sex Work Association of Jamaica, Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, and Women With a Vision here in New Orleans.
The report summarizes the experience of sex workers through examples of best practices that serve to share the development of politically-influential tools; to strengthen sex workers’ group efforts to become effectively involved in the development of policies and programs that help to amplify their voices both at regional and international levels. It also documents the access of sex workers to treatment, as well as the impact of HIV programs which fail to include a human rights-based approach, such as highly coercive or mandatory HIV programs, as well as the lack of access to affordable and effective treatment for HIV and STIs.
You can download the report here.