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KDU Law Journal Volume 04 Issue II
September, 2024
Administration, the Management of India, World Health Organization,
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and a few NGOs and
trade unions have participated in the meetings. These sessions have
contributed to highlight the strains of sex workers, influencing public
perceptions of prostitution, and generating political support for the
movement.
SANGRAM
“Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha” is yet additional organization
that has successfully implemented a human rights-based method to
sex effort. Since its inception in 1992, the group has grown into two
large groups of women, each with between 2000 and 3,000 members.
SANGRAM, like DMSC, thinks that sex work is a legitimate occupation
that ought to be decriminalized and that collective empowerment is
needed to improve the lives of sex workers. SANGRAM promotes
“responsible sex” as opposed to “safe sex” as a concept. This idea
is based on the concept that one must remain accountable for their
movements. Accountable gender is not a moral concept; rather, it
encompasses more humane aspects of sexual activity than safe sex.
SANGRAM began peer safety interference through sex workforces in
Sangli, a district in Maharashtra with the uppermost HIV prevalence
and abundant sugarcane supply. The Vaishya AIDS Muqabla Parishad
(VAMP), was the primary of deuce gender employees’ organizations
in Maharashtra to be established. To begin, VAMP thinks that people
hold health policies and systems accountable. Second, individuals with
HIV, widows, truck drivers, and other individual sex workers can all be
allowed to request accountability throughout the system. The outreach
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package emphasizes scheduled persuading teamsters, refugee labours,
where as auto-rickshaw motorists involves in “accountable gender”
besides luxury HIV. VAMP manages the peer education and condom
distribution programs. The package also comprises an operation
towards making action, like anti-retroviral therapy, more accessible.

23 Description of SANGRAM” <http://www.genderhealth.org/pubsjSANGRAMdesc.pdf.>
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