Title: 
Headings: 
SEX
 
WORKERS
 
:
 
PART
 
OF
 
THE
 
SOLUTION
  

Cheryl
 
Overs.
  
2002
  

DEFINITIONS
 

SUMMARY
 

COMMERCIAL
 
SEX
 
AND
 
HIV
 

HIV
 
epidemics
  

The
 
role
 
of
 
sex
 
work
 

Research
 
gaps
 

Rates
 
of
 
infection
 
–
 
women
 
sex
 
workers
  

Rates
 
of
 
infection
 
–
 
men
 
and
 
transgendered
 
sex
 
workers
 

Rates
 
of
 
infection
 
–
 
clients
 

A
 
PARADIGM
 
SHIFT

A
 
new
 
conceptual
 
universe
 

STRATEGIES
 

Individual
 
/
 
cognitive
 
interventions
 

Participation
 
and
 
empowerment
 

Enabling
 
environment
 

The
 
Voice
 
of
 
Life
  

Operationalising
 

Issues
 
arising
 

Community
 
Mobilisation
 
in
 
Calcutta
 

Common
 
components
 
of
 
successful
 
programmes
  

Impact
 
on
 
the
 
community
 

100%
 
condom

CHALLENGES
 

Gender
 

Migration
 
and
 
mobility
 

Drug
 
Use
  

Other
 
factors
 

Repackaging
 
Safety
 
and
 
Pleasure
  

Linking
 
prevention
 
and
 
care
 

Informal
 
commercial
 
sex
 

Rehabilitation
 
or
 
Rights?
 

EXPANSION
 

Participatory
 
Site
 
Assessment
 

Participatory
 
Research
 
and
 
Action
 

POLICIES
 

Working
 
with
 
governments
 

Networking
 
and
 
participation
 

Footnotes
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
 


Content: Sex
 
workers
 
are
 
women,
 
men
 
and
 
transgendered
 
people
 
who
 
receive
 
money
 
or
 
goods
 
in
 
exchange
 
for
 
sexual
 
services,
 
and
 
who
 
consciously
 
define
 
those
 
activities
 
as
 
income
 
generating
 
even
 
if
 
they
 
do
 
not
 
consider
 
sex
 
work
 
as
 
their
 
occupation. The
 
words
 
“
women”
,
 
“
men”
 
and
 
“
people”
 
in
 
this
 
document
 
include
 
sexually
 
active
 
adolescents. Children
 
who
 
have
 
not
 
reached
 
the
 
age
 
of
 
puberty
 
may
 
also
 
engage
 
in
 
sex
 
work
 
but
 
they
 
are
 
not
 
the
 
focus
 
of
 
this
 
document. Clients
 
are
 
people
 
(usually
 
men)
 
who
 
pay
 
with
 
cash
 
or
 
other
 
resources
 
for
 
sexual
 
services
 
either
 
explicitly
 
or
 
within
 
an
 
agreed
 
package
 
that
 
includes
 
other
 
services
 
such
 
as
 
entertainment
 
or
 
domestic
 
service. Transgender
 
describes
 
people
 
with
 
a
 
range
 
of
 
identities
 
and
 
behaviours,
 
including
 
both
 
transvestism
 
and
 
transsexualism. Transgender
 
identities,
 
behaviours,
 
legal
 
status
 
and
 
physical
 
states
 
vary
 
in
 
different
 
cultures
 
and
 
places. For
 
the
 
purposes
 
of
 
discussion
 
of
 
public
 
health
 
issues,
 
transgender
 
is
 
a
 
general
 
term
 
for
 
people
 
whose
 
self–identity
 
crosses
 
gender. Third
 
parties
 
are
 
people
 
who
 
play
 
ancillary
 
roles
 
in
 
commercial
 
sex. These
 
include
 
arranging
 
meetings
 
between
 
sex
 
workers
 
and
 
clients
 
and/or
 
providing
 
resources
 
and
 
services. These
 
roles
 
vary
 
from
 
place
 
to
 
place
 
and
 
in
 
terms
 
of
 
influence
 
and
 
power
 
over
 
commercial
 
sex
 
and
 
sex
 
workers.