Publications on Female Sex Workers (FSW)

This is a 7-page guide to the Stigma and Discrimination Experienced by Sex Workers Living with HIV briefing paper. It looks at the different types of stigma and discrimination experienced by sex workers living with HIV globally.

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.

The regional report of this multi-country study contains findings and recommendations to address violence experienced by sex workers in Asia.

In this guide, you will learn about the purpose of Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). You will also learn about why and how to engage with this international agreement to further the sexual and reproductive health and rights of KAWG. This guide provides concrete information regarding your rights, and how to claim them at a national level.

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.

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).

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.

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

This briefing paper explores sex workers' experiences of HIV and STI testing and treatment programmes from a global perspective. Sex workers are rarely included in the development and implementation of programming.

This Strategic Plan sets out the key directions for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in 2016–20. It outlines how – in those five years – NSWP will build on its significant achievements and lessons to date, while also strengthening critical areas of its work and responding to a changing and challenging environment.