A sudden and unexpected halt in U.S. funding, including USAID and PEPFAR programs, hasleft sex worker-led organizations in Nigeria, Uganda, and Kenya in crisis. Critical healthcare, employment services, and harm reduction initiatives have been abruptlycut, impacting thousands of sex
Read MoreWe are deeply saddened that the Ugandan President Museveni has assented the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. This is a devastating blow to our #LGBTIQ+ sex workers in Uganda as it is a tragic violation of their human rights and threatens
Read MoreASWA’s New Sex Workers Academy: Africa Leadership Sex Workers Academy (ALESWA) From September 2022, the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA), started a new knowledge and capacity model. The new training model is known as the Africa Leadership Sex Workers
Read MoreThrough NSWP, ASWA was able to provide webcams to its members in 24 countries in Africa to help them document cases of violence, which have been on the rise since the outbreak of COVID-19, and also organise virtual online
Read MoreThere is a recent emergence of bold anti-rights movement resulting to anti-LGBTQ+ law passed in Uganda, anti-LGBTQ+ bills made in Kenya and Ghana, sexual offences bill (which mainly targets and criminalises sex workers) being reintroduced in Uganda and the
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