Who is this guide for?

This guide is primarily for organizations implementing HIV and AIDS projects with sex workers and for organizations providing funding and technical support to these projects. It aims to help organizations understand and assess the importance of taking violence into account, and to help design and carry out activities to prevent and deal with violence against sex workers. It is hoped that the discussions and examples presented will help these organizations to know what questions to ask, what issues to look for, and how to make projects more effective by responding better to the needs of sex workers.

How can you get a copy of this guide?

Electronic copies:
• You can download a PDF of Sex work, violence and HIV from the Alliance website at
• http://www.aidsalliance.org/custom_asp/publications/view.asp?publication_id=308
• Printed copies:
• You can order a free copy by emailing publications@aidsalliance.org  with SWAV0508 in the subject line.

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