AIDS Conference, took place both in-person and virtually in Montreal, Canada.
Please find information about presentations, panels, exhibitions, films, and more about when conversations and strategies around sex work in Africa happened.
Sex Worker Pre-Conference
Date: 28th July 2022
Time:12h-17h
Launching new WHO guidelines for key populations: Focus for impact
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/140
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 517d/Channel 2
Date Time
29 July 14:45 – 16:15
What’s new in WHO guidelines: innovations, access and monitoring
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/149
Overview of new WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Person-Centered HIV Strategic Information.
Panelists: Ruth MORGAN THOMAS, Global Coordinator: Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 517a/Channel 3
Date Time
29 July 16:30 – 18:00
Communities leading the way: The importance of key population community-led responses in HIV 2022
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/535
Chair: Ruth MORGAN THOMAS, Global Network of Sex Work Projects, United Kingdom
Panelist – Community mobilisation and advocacy in Kenya: Phelister ABDALLA, National Coordinator, Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA).
Room 517d/Channel 2
Date Sunday 31st July 2022
Time 08:00 – 09:00
The Key Populations Investment Fund: Progress, pitfalls, and future directions for key population programs: Key Population Community Perspectives on KPIF.
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/65
Aniz MITHA, Community Health Rights Advocacy, Malawi
Frances W. BESTMAN, White Rose Alliance, Liberia
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 517b/Channel 4
Date Time
31 July 17:45 – 19:15
Differentiated service delivery for sex workers: Success stories during COVID-19
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/233
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 524/Channel 9
Date Time
01 August 14:15 – 15:15
Josephine ACHIENG, Deputy Director: Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP), Kenya.
Doing the right thing: Mitigating HIV-related stigma in clinical settings
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/58
Facing intersecting stigmas in clinical settings in Kenya: Pascal MACHARIA, HOYMAS, Kenya
Discussion on receiving and providing stigma free services. Joyce ODHIAMBO, PARTNERS FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, Kenya ,Joyce OLUOCH, WESTERN KENYA SEX WORKERS ALLIANCE, Kenya
Room 517b/Channel 4
Date Time
01 August 17:45 – 19:15
Trans Inclusion in National HIV Policy and Planning: A collaborative discussion between activists, researchers, and policy makers
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/479
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 510/Channel 8
Date Time
29 July 07:45 – 08:45
South African HIV, TB and STI Progress Beyond COVID-19: Rising Against All Odds
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/483
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 524/Channel 9
Date Time
29 July 07:45 – 08:45
Fight For What Counts: Maximizing health equity, gender equality and human rights in the HIV response
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/67
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 517b/Channel 4
Date Time
29 July 13:00 – 14:30
Differentiated Testing Services: Optimizing program design to enhance testing and linkage
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/64
Save lives, decriminalize: Pathways to achieving the 10-10-10s
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/424
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 518/Channel 10
Date Time
29 July 18:15 – 19:45
VIRTUAL ONLY: Advancing HIV health communication science: Challenges and opportunities for impact in key populations
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/201
ROOM/CHANNEL
Channel 11
Date Time
30 July 11:00 – 12:30
What matters? Actual and perceived sexual risk for HIV acquisition
Presentation: “Exploring the mental health experiences and perceived social and sexual risks among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya
Mamtuti Panneh
Room 220 d/e/Channel 1
11h45-12h45
29th July 2022
REPORT LAUNCH: Protectors or Perpetrators? The Impact of Unlawful Policing on HIV, Human Rights and Justice
https://programme.aids2022.org/Programme/Session/102
ROOM/CHANNEL
Room 517d/Channel 2
Date Time
02 August 08:00 – 09:00
Sex Workers’ Networking Zone
The space opened from July 30th to August 1st,10:30-6pm. The participants joined in person and some virtually by Zoom.
Red Umbrella Fund: How to strengthen the fund to strengthen the movement
Link of the session here: https://youtu.be/qr7Nd7_1U7A
Date: July 31st, 2022
Time: 11-12HR
Sex work before the courts and at tribunals, with Sisonke/SWEAT
Date: August 1, 2022
Time: 11-12HR
Find more information attached or here: Sex Work Content at the 24th International AIDS Conference, 2022
AIDS 2022 SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT
#AIDS2022, #HIV, #FundHIVFight, # Investments in #KeyPopulations, #SystemicInequality, #EndInequalityEndAIDS, #FightWhatCounts, #Investmentsin#sexworkershealth, #sexworkershealth.
ASWA ensured that sex work was part of the important conversations that took place at AIDS 2022. We prepared the following advocacy messages.
- Join us in Montreal, Canada to call on the funders to increase support for sex workers’ HIV programming in Africa.
- Provide easy access to hormonal therapy for transgender sex workers in Africa.
- Criminalisation of sex work results in violence which increases vulnerability and risk of H.I.V. Decriminalise sex work in Africa for better sex workers’ health outcomes.
- Sex workers of all genders have health needs that are often overlooked. Include sex workers of all diversity in Africa in HIV programming.
- HIV prevalence is higher among sex workers than in the general population due to unequal access to appropriate health services. End inequalities to end AIDS among sex workers in Africa.
Suggestions for using this material include:
- Posting content in the days leading up to AIDS 2022 to help create awareness of issues related to sex work issues and funding.
- Utilizing this content during your time at the conference.
- Live tweeting about sex work conversations during AIDS 2022.
- Tagging @Africasexwork and using the hashtags #Investmentsinsexworkershealth, #sexworkershealth in your posts.
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