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UN launches online sex worker AIDS campaign

    JOHANNESBURG

    A first-ever online AIDS toolkit, launched by the World health Organisation (WHO) and the German technical assistance agency (GTZ), aims to help sex workers protect themselves and their clients against HIV.

    According to the UN health agency, the kit introduces valuable expertise and preventive practices to the sex industry, which suffers a general lack of access to such services.

    WHO senior AIDS adviser Dr Isabel de Zoysa said in a statement: "This toolkit is not just a scientific study for government ministries, but also has a lot of material by sex workers, for sex workers."

    The kit offers a collection of over 130 documents, manuals, reports and research studies, bringing together a decade's worth of information on what does and does not work in HIV prevention.

    It is available online at: http://www.who.int/hiv/toolkit/sw

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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