Publications on Female Sex Workers (FSW)
Community Guide: Sex Workers Who Use Drugs
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This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic and substantive ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment, intersectional stigma, compounded marginalisation and social exclusion, heightened interference and harassment from healthcare and other service providers, infantilisation, pathologisation, and an associated undermining of agency, choice, and self-determination.
 
 
Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey among Female Sex Workers in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Round V – 2015 (Fact Sheet)
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This was the fifth round of the Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance survey conducted among Female Sex Workers (FSWs) of Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts).
 
 
Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey among Female Sex Workers in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Round V – 2015
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This is the fifth round of the IBBS survey conducted among 500 Female Sex Workers (FSWs); 300 establishment-based and 200 street-based in 2015. The survey covered the entire Kathmandu Valley: Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur districts.
 
 
The Right(s) Process: Documenting a Collaborative Research Initiative
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This report chronicles the award-winning research process behind The Right(s) Evidence: Sex Work, Violence and HIV in Asia - A Multi-Country Qualitative Study. I
 
 
Factsheet 7: HIV Surveillance in Nepal, 2015
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Nepal has been conducting HIV and STI surveillance particularly among key populations, namely: PWID, FSW and their clients, MSM/TG, and male labor migrants for more than a decade mainly to track changes in HIV and STI prevalence along with behavioral components such as condom use. Hepatitis-B and C screening among PWID has been started in the IBBS surveys from 2015.

The size estimation of key population in districts was conducted in 2010. The population size is to be updated in every 2-3 years interval.

 
 
Factsheet 4: Management of Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), as of Asar 2072 (July 2015)
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Background about STI in Nepal:
- Key interventions for management of STI in Nepal are targeted Behavior Change Communication (BCC), condom promotion and distribution, diagnosis and treatment of STI (both syndromic and etiological management) and referral services.
- STI management services are available from Government Health Facilities and NGOs for key population.
- Nepal has been following WHO recommended approach for the management of STIs in patients with recognized signs and symptoms.

 
 
Policy Brief: Sex Work, Violence and HIV in Asia - From Evidence to Safety
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This brief brings together the latest findings and recommendations for advocates, programmers and policy-makers, to identify priorities and implement effective policy and program strategies for putting this growing body of knowledge into practice.
 
 
10 Reasons to Decriminalize Sex Work
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This document provides ten reasons why decriminalization of sex work is the best policy for promoting the health and human rights of sex workers, their families, and communities.
 
 
"My Life is Too Dark To See the Light": A Survey of the Living Conditions of Transgender Female Sex Workers in Beijing and Shanghai
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Based on research in Beijing and Shanghai, China this report focuses on the daily life, working conditions, access to services, and legal frameworks for transgender female sex workers in China.
 
 
AIDS Epidemic Model Projection for HIV/AIDS in Thailand 2010-2030 Summary Report
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Started in 2005, the Thailand Ministry of Public Heath by Bureau of AIDS and STI, the A2 Thailand and the Thai Working Group on HIV/AIDS Projections (2005) presented the HIV projection for HIV/AIDS in Thailand 2005-2025 using the Asian Epidemic Model. The results had been used to guide the National Strategic Plan.