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2 Addressing Violence against Sex Workers

What’s in this chapter?
This chapter explains:
• the different kinds of violence that sex workers may experience, and how violence increases
vulnerability to HIV (Section 2.1)
• the places and contexts in which violence occurs, and the social and legal conditions that make
sex workers vulnerable to violence and other human-rights violations (Section 2.1.1)
• core values and principles for effective programmes to address violence against sex workers
(Section 2.1.2)
• promising interventions and strategies to address violence (Section 2.2)
• approaches to monitoring and evaluation of interventions (Section 2.3).
The chapter also provides a list of resources and further reading (Section 2.4).

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