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Sex workers' responses to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Source :
- Women's History Review; Mar2020, Vol. 29 Issue 2, p289-307, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This article engages with the voices of women sex workers during the peak of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in New Zealand. The late-1980s saw the formation of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, a sex worker led organisation that contracted with the government to provide a community-based national response to HIV and AIDS. The article explores the challenges sex workers faced to sustain and implement the use of condoms in their daily professional and personal lives. These included pressure from clients to forego the use of condoms, the risk of carrying condoms amidst the threat of arrest, and the struggle to manage the use of condoms in their personal sex lives. The paper traces both the widespread support for safe sex and the fractures and tensions that emerged as many sex workers mobilised to establish a community-based response to one of the most devastating health crises of the late-twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEX workers
HIV infections
AIDS
CONDOM use
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09612025
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Women's History Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141842177
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1654232