Policy Brief, Updated in March 2017
Key messages
• Meaningful involvement of sex workers in the HIV response through peer-based education and outreach and consultation in policy making and programme planning is vital to reduce their vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted inf...ections (STIs) and ensure that the challenges they face are addressed adequately.
• Sex workers (female, transgender and male) have the right to protect their health through accessing comprehensive and evidence-informed HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions.
• Innovative HIV prevention strategies and creative use of combination interventions are needed to reach mobile and ”hard to reach” sex workers.
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Countries experiencing concentrated epidemics of HIV need the size of key populations (KPs) to guide the national response on HIV and AIDS. Conducting a robust method to estimate the size of KPs is quite challenging as most of them are hidden and do not want to disclose theiridentity due to stigma a...nd discrimination associated with their behaviour. KPs in Bangladesh include female sex workers (FSW), people who inject drugs (PWID), men who have sex with men (MSM) including transgender (TG)/Hijra and sex workers, and clients of sex workers in the country or abroad.
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Handbook for HIV/Aids Training
Decree of the minister of health of the Republic of Indonesia number 445 / MENKES / SK / XI / 2013 on HIV / AIDS prevention work group and sexually transmitted infections in Indonesia
Ministerial Instruction Number 20/40 of 10/09/2009 determining conditions and modalities for therapeutic care for people living with HIV and AIDS.
Regulation of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Number 124 Year 2016 concerning the Amendment to Presidential Regulation Number 75 Year 2006 concerning National Aids Commission Countermeasures