African Sex Workers Alliance

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African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) is a pan African alliance of sex worker led groups which aims to improve the health and human rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers. [1] [2] ASWA was formed in 2009 [3] and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Member organisations exist in many African countries.

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African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) was formed in February 2009 at an African sex worker conference in Johannesburg. [3] It is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Member organisations exist in Nigeria (led by Patoo Abraham), [4] [5] [6] [7] Namibia, [8] Kenya, [9] [10] [11] Botswana, [12] Mozambique, [12] South Africa, [12] Uganda, [12] Zimbabwe, [12] Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zanzibar, Cameroon, Malawi, and Ethiopia. [13]

The coalition of groups addresses issues of "decriminalisation of sex work; strengthening sex worker-led leadership and organising; ensuring sex work is accepted as work; human and civil rights; access to HIV treatment and other health services; the high incidence of violence experienced by sex workers including from law enforcement officers; and ensuring the inclusion of male and transgender sex workers." [2]

In 2011, African Sex Workers Alliance documented human rights violations of sex workers in Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. [14] In 2015 it organised activities for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, 17 December, which included a procession in Nairobi. [15]

As of March 2018 Denis Nzioka was Programmes Manager at African Sex Workers Alliance for Kenya. [9]

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