Toolkit for Targeted HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Sex Work Settings

Published by the World Health Organization in collaboration with GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), this online toolkit is intended as a resource to guide the development and implementation of effective HIV interventions in diverse sex work settings.

It outlines key steps and issues and provides links to many documents, manuals, reports, and research studies containing more detailed and in-depth information. Each such resource or tool has been annotated to assist readers in deciding whether it is relevant to their particular situations. These linked resources are available in English. Some are also available in other languages.

The toolkit is divided into the following sections, which provide an introduction to the sex work context and describe the basic steps for the development and implementation of interventions.

Context for HIV interventions in sex work settings:

• The public health rationale;
• A strategic framework; and
• Key principles.

Development of interventions:

• Category 1: Assessment.
• Category 2: Planning and design.
• Category 3: Implementation.
• Category 4: Management.
• Category 5: Training and capacity-building.
• Category 6: Monitoring and evaluation.

The Sex Work tool kit is one of a series of online tool kits produced by WHO and GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit). Other toolkits in the series include The Antiretroviral (ARV) Toolkit [PDF format] and the Toolkit for scaling up HIV Testing and Counselling Services [PDF format] or Toolkit for scaling up HIV Testing and Counselling online .

Click here for this 87-page toolkit in PDF format.