Speaking of sex workers: How suppression of research has distorted the United States' domestic HIV response

Sex workers remain a vulnerable population at risk for HIV acquisition and transmission. Research suggests that interventions at the individual level, such as condom distribution, are less effective in preventing HIV among sex workers than structural changes such as allowing safer work settings and reducing the harassment and abuse of sex workers by clients and police. In the US, HIV incidence has not declined in the last decade. This may be due in part to its policy of wilful ignorance about sex work, but the data to resolve the question simply do not exist.
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research