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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2017

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in January 2017

PPE 648 PM - Project 4
Application: Prevention and Care for Transgender Sex Workers
Applicant: Midnight Blue
Objectives: The objective of this project are:
  1. to conduct health intervention, education and advocacy targeted at transgender sex workers through various forms of community outreach;
  2. to boost the use of condoms among transgender sex workers and raise their awareness of the importance of receiving rapid HIV and syphilis tests on a regular basis;
  3. to equip transgender sex workers with the ability to convince clients and sex partners to have safe sex through different workshops and small-group training sessions, thus improving their working conditions;
  4. to accurately grasp the situation of condom use among transgender sex workers, their private sex lives , and population mobility patterns through a survey of mobile sex workers; and
  5. to strengthen collaboration with AIDS nonprofits in neighbouring cities and establish a network for developing a multi-pronged approach to health intervention, in order to effectively bolster official strategies of AIDS prevention/treatment and to adequately respond to latest developments in the sex work industry.
Project Duration: May 2017 to April 2018
Contact Person: Ms. Lo Lam Wai (Rain)
Chief Executive
P.O.Box 78757, Mongkok Post Office, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Telephone: 2493 4555
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