This survey focuses on the unmet sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs of young sex workers in South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. Despite sex workers being a key focus of HIV prevention and treatment interventions, there is limited research on the specific needs of young sex workers. The African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) defines young sex workers as those up to the age of 24, and the report aims to amplify
the voice of this community and identify challenges and barriers to accessing SRHR services and information.
Through analyzing the data collected from interviews and surveys with the target group, the report aims to identify the challenges and barriers to accessing SRHR services and information. The report also highlights the absence of the voice of young sex workers in designing of projects targeting them, limited resources at public,government and sex workers led health facilities and policy and law that have delayed discrimination of sex work. Through the report, young sex workers are expressing the recommendation on how to come up with sustainable solutions to the barriers in accessing quality SRHR services.
These findings will inform recommendations for policy and programmatic interventions to address the unmet SRHR needs of young sex
workers in these countries. The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the research outcomes, findings and recommendations,
with the goal of drawing more attention to the requirements of sex workers who are younger.
