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Access AIDS Network is a not-for-profit organization that has been providing support in the Sudbury area now for 20 years. It provides support to people living with HIV and AIDS, including marginalized populations such as people who live on the street. It provides educational services to workplaces, schools, and institutions and assists with the deductible cost of HIV and AIDS medications.
The network also provides a food bank, youth support, and support for the lesbian, gay, and trans-gendered groups which are at particularly high risk due to deceased familial and social support.
The Access AIDS Network has a website at www.accessaidsnetwork.com. It is currently being redeveloped, but when complete will provide information on the network’s services.
One Woman’s Story
The speaker at the Access AIDS Network breakfast was raised in a dysfunctional home where substance abuse as well as physical abuse (directed at her mother) was common. When she was in her teens, her father sexually abused her. To escape her home life, she turned to drugs and alcohol, and later to crime and prostitution to fund her habits.

See the full article from “NorthernLife.ca”

ACCORDING to official statistics released yesterday, 1745 persons have been infected with the virus since 1989. A total of 619 persons were detected to have developed AIDS, out of whom 204 died. In 2009 alone, 250 persons were infected, of them 143 developed AIDS and 39 died. According to a recent survey, 50 percent of the males who had voluntary HIV tests at a city hospital were students and 80 percent of those proving positive contracted the disease by mixing with prostitutes. The prevalence of the deadly disease has taken a serious turn among certain risk groups. According to official sources, prevalence of AIDS virus among the intravenous drug users has assumed a concentrated epidemic proportion with more than five percent infection rate. IDUs are at a high risk. Migrant workers are no more the main source of the virus; it is reportedly being spread from within the country.

See the full article from “The New Nation”

Pakistani sex workers on the Aids front line
Shumaila is a prostitute, who was born and brought up in Karachi’s Napier Road red-light district. Until recently she had never heard of HIV and Aids.
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Prostitution may be illegal but it has prospered in an increasingly Islamised Pakistan, where an economic downturn and widening poverty have forced women and men onto the streets to meet the rising cost of living.
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Azam says more than 60 per cent of Pakistan’s prostitutes work from homes or ply the streets, while the elite serve wealthy clients from kothikhanas (houses or rooms) in plush neighbourhoods.
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“The number of our clients who agree to wear a condom is very small. Female condoms are not available, which can save us more effectively,” said Nasreen, another prostitute in Napier Road.
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NACP says the disease is spreading among high-risk groups, especially drug users, who mostly inject and use dirty needles, raising fears the virus could spread quickly from addicts to prostitutes.

See the full article from “Telegraph.co.uk”

In the United States, especially White America, AIDS is often associated with the gay male community, where it remains a serious epidemic. Yet in 2005, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, 9708 infected women accounted for 26% of the total number of AIDS cases. AIDS was the leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 and 34 years.
Worldwide, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, in 2008 women comprised more than half of all AIDS cases, or 50.3%. In Sub-Saharan Africa women accounted for 60% of all AIDS cases, in North Africa and the Middle East 54.2%, and 32.3% in Latin America.
While many women have contracted AIDS through intravenous drug use, it’s estimated that 80% became infected through unprotected sex with men. Women engaged in sex work are especially vulnerable in this respect.

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

Lack of preventive steps raises HIV risk
Mahbubur Rahman Khan
Reluctance to use condom and abrupt use of syringe increase the risk of HIV infection and spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in the country.
Poverty-ridden women, who engage in sex work, become more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and STD as sex buyers show reluctance to use condom.
Sex workers could not compel customers to use condom in the fear of losing money or assault from the customers. Chief of sex workers also do not compel sex buyers to use condom fearing loss in business, investigation revealed.
Aklima Begum, a leader of Kandapara Brothel of Tangail, told this Correspondent that she knows about HIV and STD and supplied condom to the sex workers but very few customers use condom.
Customers are not only reluctant to use condom rather they often get furious on workers and assault them, she said.

See the full article from “The New Nation”

While the portion of new infections attributable to sex work may have declined, the report says that the low social status of sex workers “impedes efforts to deliver HIV prevention services to this population”.

See the full article from “AllAfrica.com”

… Indonesia’s rapidly rising HIV rate is not a problem of finances,
underdevelopment or low education levels among Indonesian citizens,” said
Michael Buehler, a postdoctoral fellow in Southeast Asian Studies at Columbia
University in the United States. “The Indonesian government just does not have
the political will to stand against conservative Islamic pressure groups that
say condom distribution promotes premarital sex.”
The fact that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono chose to address culturally
sensitive subjects such as sex work and homosexuality during an August speech
at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific was a positive
sign that the government may support the KPA’s condom promotion agenda.
Yudhoyono created the AIDS commission in 2007 to help coordinate efforts by
government and non-governmental entities, including the private sector, to
tackle the spread of HIV.

See the full article from “Asia Times Online”

… They (police) are cracking down on ‘Back Road’ (the Port Henderson strip in St Catherine known for commercial sex work) now but the sex workers simply move from Back Road to a different location, or from Kingston to a different parish.”
He said the problem is further compounded when the activity is done in the privacy of persons’ homes.
Harvey — who last year came under strong public criticism when he suggested that taxing prostitutes could bring in an estimated $3 billion annually to government coffers — is adamant that regulating the profession will effectively help in the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
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“I strongly believe that there needs to be a regulatory framework in order to control sex work in Jamaica; this has been the methodology used in a number of countries to control sex work, and if you look at some of the countries that have done it you’ll see that the general (HIV/AIDS) population prevalence decreases significantly,” he said.

See the full article from “Jamaica Observer”

One of the significant findings of the report is that the impact of the AIDS response is high where HIV prevention and treatment programmes have been integrated with other health and social welfare services. Early evidence shows that HIV may be a significant factor in maternal mortality. Research models using South African data estimate that about 50,000 maternal deaths were associated with HIV in 2008.
The AIDS epidemic is evolving and HIV prevention programmes are not rapidly adjusting to the changes
The double report also shows that the face of the epidemic is changing and that prevention efforts are not keeping pace with this shift. For example, the epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia once characterized by injecting drug use is now spreading to the sexual partners of people who inject drugs. Similarly, in parts of Asia, an epidemic once characterized by transmission through sex work and injecting drug use is now increasingly affecting heterosexual couples.

See the full article from “Philippine Information Agency”

She said at least 70,000 of the city’s 500,000 residents are considered to be in a high-risk group for the disease.
Sri
said in the past, the red-light district had been concentrated in one
area. But, she said, new prostitution centers had recently sprouted up
across a broad area, such as a burgeoning red light district in the
northern part of the city, known as Jalak Alley in Gilingan.
Sri
said prostitution was rife across the city, with many places using
legitimate businesses as a front. She said many massage parlors,
billiard halls and brothels operating in private homes had cropped up.
Sri said the decentralized sex trade was far more difficult for
authorities to monitor and was a barrier for the city’s efforts, such
as ensuring condoms are readily available, to fight the spread of
HIV/AIDS.

See the full article from “Jakarta Globe”