This paper aims to explore the intersection of HIV criminalization and sex work to better understand how HIV criminalization affects sex workers, but also how the different forms of HIV criminalization and sex work reinforce each other and exacerbate violence and discrimination against sex workers living with HIV in the region.
This project is a continuation of the work initiated by And Soppeku, an organization of sex workers in Senegal, which published an advocacy document on the issue in 2023, with the support of HIV Justice Worldwide.