[REPORT] Community-Driven Rights Research: Sex Workers in China

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By Mike Frick

From June through early August, I
helped Asia Catalyst’s partner organization, Phoenix, to train five volunteers
in research and rights documentation skills. Phoenix is an NGO that serves
women living with HIV/AIDS – many of them sex workers and drug users — in
Gejiu, Yunnan Province, China. The five participating volunteers on our
research team are all former drug users, and several of them also work as sex
workers. Our goal was to build their capacity to conduct the kind of research
that can inform advocacy and make a difference in the lives of the community
Phoenix serves.

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[UPDATE] Vienna Report Back: Key Topics 来自维也纳的报告：关键话题

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By Ken Oh and Meg Davis

作者：Ken Oh、王翠凤

 

 

There were dozens of sessions and over
20,000 people at the 2010 International AIDS Conference, whose theme was
“Rights Here, Rights Now”. We can’t bring it all to you, but here’s a roundup
of the highlights:

2010年的国际艾滋病大会，共有20,000人参加，召开了多场会议。本次会议的主题是 “我们的权利，就在此时此地”。在此，我们不能将会议的全部呈现给各位，但将为各位呈上本次会议亮点的综述。

 

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[COMMENTARY] Legalization vs. Decriminalization 分析：合法化与除罪化

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The International AIDS Conference also launched the Vienna Declaration, (中文https://www.viennadeclarationchinese.com/), a statement signed by hundreds of doctors, experts and NGOs calling for decriminalization of drug use.  A number of speakers, panels and protests at the conference also
called for the decriminization of HIV transmission and commercial sex work.  A growing body of scientific evidence presented at the meeting shows that decriminalization would be consistent not only with a rights-based approach to the epidemic but also with science-based public health principles.

 

 

However, there is some confusion regarding the differences between “decriminalization” and “legalization” – so
here is a brief explanation.

 

 

国际艾滋病大会上共有数百名医生签署了新发起的《维也纳宣言》，专家们和非营利性组织呼吁取消对使用毒品定罪。出席会议的许多发言人、专门小组和抗议者也呼吁取消对传播艾滋病与性工作的定罪。会上，越来越多的证据表明除罪化不仅和从权力角度出发抗击疾病的方式相一致，也与从科学的角度出发的公众健康规则相一致。

 

 

然而，在合法化与除罪化之间仍然有些令人困惑的地方，下面是对此的简单解释：

 

 

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[REPORT] Test and Treat? 聚焦：化验和治疗？

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Consent and confidentiality: challenges in HIV testing

 

A growing chorus of countries, NGOs
and foundations at the conference called for routine testing as an effective
strategy for HIV prevention. However, a number of panels and sessions at the
conference disagreed with this approach, suggesting that rights abuses related
to drives to scale up HIV testing can actually undermine AIDS prevention.

 

 

同意与保密：艾滋病化验中的挑战

 

越来越多的国家、非政府组织和基金会都一致呼吁将例行化验作为预防艾滋病的有效措施。但是大会上，许多专门小组和专项会议不同意这个方法，并指出，和急于扩大艾滋病病毒化验相关的权利侵犯，将破坏艾滋病的预防工作。

 

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[COMMENTARY] Protest: An Honorable Tradition at the AIDS Conference 抗议：艾滋病大会上的光荣传统

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Sex worker protest at the conference to demand decriminalization (Photo by Zhao Gang)

At the Vienna conference, thousands took to the streets to call for human rights to be integrated into AIDS policies and programs. They gathered in the Heldenplatz, a historic square in front of the Austrian Parliament building, to cheer the heads of UNAIDS, the Global Fund, and international AIDS activists such as Mark Heywood, and to dance and sing with pop singer Annie Lennox.

在维也纳的会议期间，成千上万的人上街集会，要求把人权列入到艾滋病的各项政策和项目中去。集会的地点是位于奥地利国会大楼前的英雄广场，一个具有历史意义的地方。人们相聚一起，为联合国艾滋病规划署署长、全球基金会会长和国际艾滋病活动家如马克·西伍德欢呼，和流行歌手安妮·列克斯一起载歌载舞。

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