Sex Work talks at the International Aids Conference, Mexico 2008

On behalf of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and our Mexican and international partners, we would like to invite you to join us for the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008), to be held in México City, México from 3-8 August 2008. AIDS 2008 will be the first International AIDS Conference ever held in Latin America, and international planning committees are already hard at work developing an exciting programme.

This is the 13th time that the NSWP and other local sex workers organisation have worked together to ensure that sex workers voices are heard at the International Conference and to advance our movement by getting to know each other and building alliances. At the conferences sex workers have presented strong cases for sex workers human rights, protested abuses and unethical practices and forged many of the links and ideas that have led to effective, rights based programmes. The conference has been a key platform for sex workers to influence the way governments, international agencies and societies respond to sex workers, both in terms of HIV and more broadly. It was at these conferences that the term "sex worker" was first accepted over "prostitute" on its way into common use for example.