Translation of "sex worker " (English → French) :

Urges the Government to ensure that equality, regardless of sex, gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, is guaranteed by the law and effectively enforced; deplores the recent legal action against LGBTT associations but welcomes the fact that the cases in question were dismissed by the courts; notes, however, the need for further action against homophobia and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation as provided for in the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation to Member States on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity; calls on the Turkish Government to instruct the Turkish Armed Forces to end its classification ...[+++]of homosexuality as a ‘psychosexual’ illness; asks that the Draft Law on Combating Discrimination and Equality Committee be brought into line with EU standards, including as regards the grounds of sex and sexual orientation; urges national and local authorities to put an end to the ongoing murders of transgender people, including transgender sex workers;

Other vulnerable groups such as commercial sex workers and prisoners are also considerably affected by HIV/AIDS.

So what we have to do, as advocates, as people who are analyzing the issue, and as sex workers' rights activists, is start to really look at legislation at those levels and take part of the responsibility to flow from the work that's going to happen here, and hopefully the recommendations for decriminalization, to then work with governments at the provincial and municipal levels to look really specifically at that legislation and ask sex workers, ourselves, and lawyers, will that legislation provide the kind of protection sex workers are looking for in the context of their labour and employment, so that those statutes can both protect se ...[+++]x workers from unfair and poor working conditions and can also support a positive employer-employee relationship, which already exists and is going to continue to exist in the sex industry?

Based on HIV epidemiology within the EU and in neighbouring countries there is a need for intensified prevention measures for the general public, and targeted at specific groups such as youth, women, injecting drug users, men who have sex with men, commercial sex workers, prisoners, and migrant populations.

Cost estimates for HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated at USD 1.5 billion yearly for prevention (including youth focused and sex worker interventions, public sector condom provision, condom social marketing, STI services, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), blood transfusion services, mother to child transmission (MTCT), media, workplace interventions, start-up capacity development and surveillance, monitoring and evaluation) and USD 1.5 billion yearly for care programmes (including essential HIV care but not Highly Active Anti Retroviral Treatment (HAART) [11].

In view of the situation within the European Union (constant increase in the number of cases), there is a need to step up prevention activities both among the general public and among specific groups (young people, women, sex workers, drug users, etc.).