Decriminalizing SexWork: Implications for HIV Prevention and Control in China

Dongbao Yu (), Edmund Settle, Ruotao Wang and Lenore Manderson
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Dongbao Yu: Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Edmund Settle: United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Ruotao Wang: National Center for AIDS Control and Prevention
Lenore Manderson: Key Center for Women’s Health of the University of Melbourne

Chapter Chapter 11 in Gender Policy and HIV in China, 2009, pp 201-213 from Springer

Abstract: While needle sharing remains the main source of HIV transmission in China, the percentage of HIV infections from sexual transmission is steadily increasing, and commercial sex work is regarded as one of the primary factors leading to this increase. Current government policies such as the criminalization of sex workers and “severely cracking down on illegal activities such as sex work” (Ministry of Public Security, 1981) have a limited positive impact on HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Moreover, they leave sex workers socially and legally marginalized, thereby limiting the effectiveness of prevention and outreach programs.

Keywords: Rural Woman; Public Security; Rural Enterprise; Beauty Salon; World Heath Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_12

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