December 31, 2005
Sex Work and HIV/AIDS in Asia: MAP Report
This is one of a series of three programming-themed booklets based on AIDS in Asia: Face the Facts.
This is one of a series of three programming-themed booklets based on AIDS in Asia: Face the Facts.
People who buy and sell sex pose one of the high-risk behaviours for HIV exposure in Asia. It is therefore essential for HIV prevention interventions to take into account the nature of the Asian sex industry. The purpose of this booklet is twofold:
1. to summarize what researchers have learned about the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS within Asian commercial sex networks; and,
2. to discuss the programmatic implications of those findings.
This publication follows up by highlighting the points that relate specifically to the spread of HIV through commercial sex. It also describes how those points should inform HIV prevention strategies.
