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Female sex worker HIV prevention projects: Lessons learnt from Papua New Guinea, India and Bangladesh

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HIVAIDS
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The set of case studies in this collection emerged from a session entitled Best Practices in Female Sex Worker Projects held at the Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Manila, October 1997. Preparation for the session began in May 1997 when UNAIDS sponsored an effort to learn about sex worker projects in the region. Lists of known potential projects were elicited from sex work networks, well-connected individuals and researchers. A call for responses was placed on the SEA-AIDS list server. After intensive communication with 25 sex worker projects in the Asia-Pacific region, five were selected that asserted they could produce data to document their impact and effectiveness

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African CDC 125 0 Public Health Resources Technical Report Health Systems HIVAIDS UNAIDS
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