NAPWA

Sex worker rights group Scarlet Alliance expressed outrage at the sentencing of sex worker Hector Scott for two months and four days under the ACT Prostitution Control Act in September. read more »

January and February this year were marked by a furore of sensationalist media about Hector Scott, a resident of the ACT who first appeared in the ACT Magistrates court charged with providing a commercial sexual service while knowing he was infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and failing to register as a sex worker. read more »

The ACT government’s handling of a case involving an alleged HIV-positive sex worker has been clumsy, alarmist and has failed to follow basic public health guidelines, the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWHA) has said. read more »

Kirsty Machon questions the misinformation, controversy and conspiracy theories which put an end to the proposed PREP trials among sex workers in Cambodia and Cameroon. read more »

A controversial Cambodian trial of tenofovir for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) is unlikely to proceed after sex workers and the Cambodian government claimed the trial did not include adequate safeguards for the health and human rights of the participants. read more »

Australian researchers have teamed up with the US and Cambodia to conduct a study of the potential of the HIV antiviralA medication or substance which is active against one or more virusesA small infective organism which is incapable of reproducing outside a host cell.. May include anti-HIV drugs, but these are more accurately termed antiretroviralsA medication or other substance which is active against retroviruses such as HIV.. tenofovir, taken daily, to prevent HIV infection in women at high risk. read more »