For Pearl Rosental, ALLEGED-Association of Lesbian, Gay , Transsexuals and Bisexuals of Cantabria, a member of the Advisory Committee Public Health Observatory
Cantabria social exclusion and Labour transgender sex workers makes their vulnerability to HIV
The FELGTB and arguments (Association of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals of Cantabria), calling for joint efforts to overcome stigma and labor exclusion of transgender sex workers and reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
ALLEGED and the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals want to highlight in the celebration of December 1, World AIDS Day, the need for a joint effort of society, government, media and NGOs to prevent and combat exclusion, discrimination and social stigmatization of transsexual women sex workers, secure and defend their rights, facilitate their employment, meet their health needs and reduce their vulnerability and risk to HIV and other STIs.
According to the Ministry of Health, Spain, specific preventive interventions are needed for persons practicing prostitution (PEP), and highlights that "transsexual women have a particular vulnerability, sexual practices, and biological vulnerability for the same socioeconomic and cultural factors, and also for experienced transphobia, vulnerability is increased in the If transgender sex workers and non-regularized immigrants for their problems of social and labor.
regard to the prevalence of HIV in transgender women in Spain, according to the EPI-HIV Group (2), between 2000 and 2008 there were 124,428 HIV tests to people who came for the first time at 20 centers participating in the study, of which 350 (0.3%) were female transsexuals, most of them sex workers. In total, there were 3,219 new HIV diagnoses, corresponding to 90 (2.8%) of them female transsexuals, resulting in a prevalence of 25.7%. These data confirm the high vulnerability of transgender sex workers from HIV.
also highly vulnerable to be added as UNAIDS indicates that "since sex work is highly stigmatized in many societies, most sex workers facing some degree of stigma and discrimination. The professional men and women sex transsexual may face stigma and discrimination further. "
Therefore, in the Year to trans-form ALLEGED dedicated to make known the particulars of reality transsexual seeks the involvement of all stakeholders needed to achieve:
A realistic and unbiased understanding of transsexualism, their standardization social, and respect for the diversity of identity gender.
prevent social exclusion of transgender people and facilitate their care and social integration, with special attention to transgender sex workers.
increase and strengthen political cooperation, economic and material general LGBT associations, and associations of transgender people in particular, supporting the association, participation and the services they provide, both in relation to their social and labor as to improve their health and sex education and prevent transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with special attention to transgender sex workers.
"It is necessary to overcome prejudices and stereotypes about transgender people and work together to reduce their vulnerability and social exclusion and employment and improve their health and the prevention of HIV / AIDS."
"From ALLEGED work with transsexual women sex workers in a program that is based on personalized attention and providing information and preventive material and also seeks to empower them with tools to negotiate safer sex and promote self-care.
World AIDS Day is one of the key dates for LGBT for his involvement in the fight against this pandemic.
Cantabria social exclusion and Labour transgender sex workers makes their vulnerability to HIV
The FELGTB and arguments (Association of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals of Cantabria), calling for joint efforts to overcome stigma and labor exclusion of transgender sex workers and reduce their vulnerability to HIV.
ALLEGED and the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals want to highlight in the celebration of December 1, World AIDS Day, the need for a joint effort of society, government, media and NGOs to prevent and combat exclusion, discrimination and social stigmatization of transsexual women sex workers, secure and defend their rights, facilitate their employment, meet their health needs and reduce their vulnerability and risk to HIV and other STIs.
According to the Ministry of Health, Spain, specific preventive interventions are needed for persons practicing prostitution (PEP), and highlights that "transsexual women have a particular vulnerability, sexual practices, and biological vulnerability for the same socioeconomic and cultural factors, and also for experienced transphobia, vulnerability is increased in the If transgender sex workers and non-regularized immigrants for their problems of social and labor.
regard to the prevalence of HIV in transgender women in Spain, according to the EPI-HIV Group (2), between 2000 and 2008 there were 124,428 HIV tests to people who came for the first time at 20 centers participating in the study, of which 350 (0.3%) were female transsexuals, most of them sex workers. In total, there were 3,219 new HIV diagnoses, corresponding to 90 (2.8%) of them female transsexuals, resulting in a prevalence of 25.7%. These data confirm the high vulnerability of transgender sex workers from HIV.
also highly vulnerable to be added as UNAIDS indicates that "since sex work is highly stigmatized in many societies, most sex workers facing some degree of stigma and discrimination. The professional men and women sex transsexual may face stigma and discrimination further. "
Therefore, in the Year to trans-form ALLEGED dedicated to make known the particulars of reality transsexual seeks the involvement of all stakeholders needed to achieve:
A realistic and unbiased understanding of transsexualism, their standardization social, and respect for the diversity of identity gender.
prevent social exclusion of transgender people and facilitate their care and social integration, with special attention to transgender sex workers.
increase and strengthen political cooperation, economic and material general LGBT associations, and associations of transgender people in particular, supporting the association, participation and the services they provide, both in relation to their social and labor as to improve their health and sex education and prevent transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with special attention to transgender sex workers.
"It is necessary to overcome prejudices and stereotypes about transgender people and work together to reduce their vulnerability and social exclusion and employment and improve their health and the prevention of HIV / AIDS."
"From ALLEGED work with transsexual women sex workers in a program that is based on personalized attention and providing information and preventive material and also seeks to empower them with tools to negotiate safer sex and promote self-care.
World AIDS Day is one of the key dates for LGBT for his involvement in the fight against this pandemic.
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