{"id":91,"date":"2006-03-06T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T06:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/06\/enabling-sex-work-or-effective-hi"},"modified":"2006-11-29T23:05:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T04:05:32","slug":"enabling-sex-work-or-effective-hiv-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2006\/03\/06\/enabling-sex-work-or-effective-hiv-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling sex work or effective HIV prevention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a169\"><\/a>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/01\/AR2006030102316.html?sub=AR\">WashingtonPost.com<\/a> (4 Mar 2006)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">RIO DE JANEIRO &#8212; Paula Duran is an outreach worker with a style of her own. That style &#8212; heavy on fishnet, tattoos and suggestive poses &#8212; is at the heart of an ideological disagreement between Brazil and the United States over the best way to fight AIDS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Duran, 35, is a prostitute in Villa Mimosa, a red-light district in this seaside city where an estimated 3,500 sex workers lounge in the doorways and lean out the windows of scarred, decaying buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">Each time she snags a customer, she fishes in her purse for a government-supplied condom. Often she repeats information on disease transmission that she learned at a state-funded workshop for prostitutes around the corner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">But the U.S. government strongly disapproves of such unorthodox methods. Two weeks ago, Brazil received a letter from USAID declaring the country ineligible for a renewal of a $48 million AIDS prevention grant. The United States requires all countries receiving AIDS funding help to formally state that prostitution is dehumanizing and degrading, and Brazil last year &#8212; alone among AIDS aid recipients &#8212; was unwilling to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the WashingtonPost.com (4 Mar 2006) RIO DE JANEIRO &#8212; Paula Duran is an outreach worker with a style of her own. That style &#8212; heavy on fishnet, tattoos and suggestive poses &#8212; is at the heart of an ideological disagreement between Brazil and the United States over the best way to fight AIDS. Duran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}