South Africa Announces Global Fund-Supported HIV Program Promoting Sex Worker Rights

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: South African HIV Program on Rights of Sex Workers
“The South African National AIDS Council said that a long-awaited HIV program catering specifically to the needs of sex workers — 60 percent of whom are estimated to be living with HIV — became firmly established during the course of 2014. … It is funded by a grant of about US$8.5 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,” according to a Global Fund press release (1/12).

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