Decriminalization Of Sex Work Could Avert Future HIV Infections, Lancet Article Says

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Want to change the course of HIV epidemics? Decriminalizing sex work could have greatest impact, researchers say
Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses a Lancet article, titled “Global epidemiology of HIV among female sex workers: influence of structural determinants,” that was originally published online in July as part of the journal’s series on HIV and sex workers (1/6).

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