AIDS-preventie voor prostituées: conclusies van het EUROPAP-project
Abstract
AIDS-prevention for prostitutes. Conclusions of the EUROPAP project - The EUROPAP(European Intervention Projects AIDS-Prevention for Prostitutes) project which was run in 1994, aimed at evaluating existing AIDS-prevention projects in eleven countries in Europe, and wanted to use the results for the description of standards to which projects should answer. The co¬ ordination of EUROPAP was done by the University of Ghent, Department of Public Health. In this article a summary is presented of the outcome of the first year. It is based on the final report of EUROPAP, in which each country presents an overview of the domestic situation. The main conclusions were : laws and policies that obstruct prostitutes’ use of health and social services and restrict their control over their working conditions should be reviewed and repealed. Existing health services do not fully cover the needs of all sex workers in any European country, and therefore full consideration should be given to the development and provision of specific services. Such specific services need stable and continued funding in order to establish a trust relationship with prostitutes, and to provide services to an ever-changing, mobile and hard-to-reach group. Initiatives should be carried out with the close collaboration of the prostitutes themselves. Networking between AIDS-prevention projects for prostitutes in Europe has helped us to determine which projects are successful in promoting safer sex in prostitution.
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Mak, R., (1995) “AIDS-preventie voor prostituées: conclusies van het EUROPAP-project”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 40(3), 323–331. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95210
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