How are we different from Community-Based Organisations (CBOs) which provide HIV services?
Most sex worker CBOs are formed for the primary purpose of receiving funds from the government and other funding agencies to implement HIV/AIDS services. We are a trade union of sex workers, concerned about working conditions and all the concerns of sex workers. When Karnataka Sex Workers Union was formed, the notion of sex as work was introduced into the mainstream labour and industrial workers sectors. While we have always called ourselves businessmen or businesswomen, others have seen us as victims. The union is one way of asserting our right to choose the work we do, and the right to work on our own terms. We also take up issues such as police violence, exploitation, and human rights abuses against our union members. We also intervene in areas of policy and programmes, including the exploitation of sex workers in various government and NGO projects and programmes. Some of the services provided by us are similar to those of HIV-service providing CBOs.
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