BLANTYRE–Malawi’s estimated 20,000 sex workers have formed an alliance to fight for their interests and social justice, a lawyer representing them has said, two years after 14 prostitutes sued police and the government for forced HIV tests.
Malawi sex workers form alliance following forced HIV tests, disclosure
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