Comments on: Outdated Fear: Criminalizing HIV+ Sex Workers https://titsandsass.com/gross-miscarriages-of-justice-criminalizing-hiv-sex-workers/ By and about sex workers Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: A https://titsandsass.com/gross-miscarriages-of-justice-criminalizing-hiv-sex-workers/#comment-1125782 Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:45:47 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=16441#comment-1125782 Since this piece was published, the legal situation in Colorado has improved tremendously. It is no longer a felony and they are no longer permitted to do forcible testing.

]]> By: Nebethetepet https://titsandsass.com/gross-miscarriages-of-justice-criminalizing-hiv-sex-workers/#comment-758419 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:01:18 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=16441#comment-758419 Super frustrating to read about issues like this. There are currently 13 states that make prostitution with knowledge of HIV infection illegal. Regardless of the type of services provided.

For a more uplifting piece, though, there’s this:
http://www.thenation.com/article/just-say-n%C3%A3o

It’s this piece on Brazil from 2005 that Wikipedia paraphrased thus:

The Brazilian government turned down $40 million in U.S. anti-HIV/AIDS funding in 2005, because the U.S. government required all recipients to sign an anti-prostitution pledge. The Brazilian anti-AIDS program employs prostitutes to hand out information and free condoms; Brazil’s AIDS commissioner Pedro Chequer was quoted as saying “Sex workers are part of implementing our AIDS policy and deciding how to promote it. They are our partners. How could we ask prostitutes to take a position against themselves?”

Cheers me right up again. Gotta love a country that doesn’t decriminalize sex work and comes up with drink names like cachacha 🙂

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