To ensure an effective, sustainable response to HIV that is consistent with human rights obligations:
3.2. Countries must reform their approach towards sex work. Rather than punishing consenting adults involved in sex work, countries must ensure safe working conditions and off er sex workers and their clients access to effective HIV and health services and commodities. Countries must:3.2.1 Repeal laws that prohibit consenting adults to buy or sell sex, as well as laws that otherwise prohibit commercial sex, such as laws against “immoral” earnings, “living off the earnings” of prostitution and brothel-keeping. Complementary legal measures must be taken to ensure safe working conditions to sex workers.
3.2.2 Take all measures to stop police harassment and violence against sex workers.
3.2.3 Prohibit the mandatory HIV and STI testing of sex workers.
3.2.4 Ensure that the enforcement of anti-human-trafficking laws is carefully targeted to punish those who use force, dishonesty or coercion to procure people into commercial sex, or who abuse migrant sex workers through debt bondage, violence or by deprivation of liberty. Anti-human-trafficking laws must be used to prohibit sexual exploitation and they must not be used against adults involved in consensual sex work.
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Eliminate mandatory HIV/STI testing???? Are they INSANE???
y’all might be interested in this.
In other words, taxpayers must ensure safe working conditions, etc.
How bizarre. Given the inherently risky nature of their work, I would have thought that mandatory STI/HIV testing was a no brainer. There are plenty of other professions that have a requirement for regular testing of some form or another for the safety of the public - why not this profession?
Sounds like another rainbows and unicorns pipe dream from a committee.