WHAT National Sex Workers' Symposium: Best practices for HIV prevention, care and treatment for sex workers in South Africa
WHEN Wednesday 22 August & Thursday 23 August 2012
WHERE Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre, View Point Road, Boksburg
WHO Policy makers, researchers, public health professionals, development organisations, the NGO sector, activists and sex workers
KEY EVENTS on Wednesday, 22 August
- 09h30 to 10h15
- - Key note address: The Hon Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, Deputy Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities
- 13h30 to 14h30
- - Address: Sex workers, HIV and human rights: the role of the South African Police: The Hon Ms Maggie Sotyu, Deputy Minister of Police
- 19h00
- - Official launch of South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) sex worker sector plan – cocktail event Address: Dr. Fareed Abdullah, CEO, SANAC Dr Julitta Onabanjo, UNFPA Country Representative
KEY TOPICS Sessions will cover topics such as: What we know about sex work; the cast and crew of sex work; cross-cutting vulnerabilities of sex work; best practices; sex work as work: getting in, staying in and getting out of the industry
INFO
- - Press kits will be available at the symposium
- - One-on-one interviews can be arranged with key experts and sex workers at the symposium through the media focal points below
- - Privacy of sex workers should be respected. We ask that no identifying photographs of sex workers should be taken without prior informed consent
CONTACT
[See below for a PDF version of this media advisory]
