{"id":244709,"date":"2022-12-04T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/criminalisation-has-hurt-sex-workers-and-perpetuated-the-aids-pandemic-unaids-welcomes-south-africas-call-to-end-it?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-12-04T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:58:47","slug":"criminalisation-has-hurt-sex-workers-and-perpetuated-the-aids-pandemic-united-nations-programme-on-hiv-aids-unaids-welcomes-south-africas-call-to-end-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/criminalisation-has-hurt-sex-workers-and-perpetuated-the-aids-pandemic-united-nations-programme-on-hiv-aids-unaids-welcomes-south-africas-call-to-end-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminalisation has hurt sex workers and perpetuated the AIDS pandemic: United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes South Africa&#8217;s call to end it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/14e499d17b15e8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/14e499d17b15e8a\" alt=\"United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/14e499d17b15e8a\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=228940&amp;press_source=United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS)\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Responding to the decision of South Africa&#039;s Cabinet to propose a Bill that will repeal criminalisation of sex work, UNAIDS Country Director Eva Kiwango said:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence is clear: Criminalisation has been proven to have increased the risks faced by South Africa&#039;s sex workers, hurt their health and safety, and obstructed South Africa&#039;s HIV response.<\/p>\n<p>UNAIDS welcomes South Africa&#039;s Cabinet&#039;s proposal to repeal criminalisation and to protect sex workers against abuse and exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>Criminalisation has impeded South African sex workers&#039; access to vital health-care services, including effective HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services.<\/p>\n<p>To end AIDS, we need to repeal the harmful punitive laws which are perpetuating the pandemic. To save lives, decriminalise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Responding to the decision of South Africa&#039;s Cabinet to propose a Bill that will repeal criminalisation of sex work, UNAIDS Country Director Eva Kiwango said: &#8220;The evidence is clear: Criminalisation has been proven to have increased the risks faced by South Africa&#039;s sex workers, hurt their health and safety, and obstructed South Africa&#039;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-244709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/criminalisation-has-hurt-sex-workers-and-perpetuated-the-aids-pandemic-united-nations-programme-on-hiv-aids-unaids-welcomes-south-africas-call-to-end-it.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}