UN consults with sex workers on AIDS
EuropaWorld: "Representatives from governments and sex workers associations joined United Nations officials in Geneva on 22 January for the start of unprecedented talks aimed at identifying strategies to halt the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Some 35 representatives from the UN, governments and sex work networks and organizations attended a two-day consultative workshop organized by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The workshop was seeking to identify strategies for the UN and sex worker communities to collaborate in preventing the spread and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS among sex workers, according to UNAIDS."