of transgender sex workers also brings challenges to intervention and mobilization
efforts.219
While transgender individuals have problems that deserve specialized attention,
in particular the lack of an appropriate legal status and widespread discrimination,
civil society organizations lack the financial or political support to provide related
interventions and services. Increased drug use and HIV prevalence also warrant
targeted interventions, as well as responses to violence from clients, the police and
the public. A community based response, that is transgender-led would be the most
effective response to addressing the needs of the community through targeted peer to
peer interventions.
219 Telephone interview with Le Yan, September 18, 2014.
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