… Sex workers are highly vulnerable to HIV-AIDS. It’s our responsibility to create awareness about it among sex workers and provide necessary medical services to those who are already infected by HIV-AIDS,” Helen, who heads the Swati Mahila Sangha, a sex workers’ collective in Bangalore, told IANS Monday on the eve of World AIDS Day.
“Today we have 7,500 members and our organisation has worked with around 16,000 sex workers across the city. Apart from creating awareness about HIV-AIDS among sex workers, we are also trying to fight the social stigma attached to sex workers and to HIV-AIDS,” she said.
Karnataka has around 245,000 HIV infected people.
Soumya, another HIV-AIDS activist who is a transgender and a sex worker, is also trying to create awareness among sexual minorities about HIV-AIDS through Samara, an organisation for sexual minorities.
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