Sex workers and HIV prevention in Fiji - after the Fiji Crimes Decree 2009
By: Karen McMillan and Heather Worth
Contributors: Worth, Heather, author
Publisher: International HIV Research Group, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the University of New South Wales
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: HIV infections; Prevention; Prostitutes
Description: This research is an extension of the original Risky Business Fiji study. Changes to the laws around sex work were announced around the time that the initial study results were released. Consequently, a repeat of that original research on HIV prevention and sex work in Fiji was planned for some eighteen months after the law change to allow time for any initial knee-jerk reactions to have settled down and the nature of any impact on sex work and HIV prevention - or the lack of impact - to become apparent. The timing of the two sets of data collection, straddling the implementation of the Decree, provided a unique opportunity to go back to the same groups of sex workers with the same topics of discussion and with the same methodology, the only difference being the legal framework.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.