South Africa: SA to Launch Aids Plan for Sex Workers

South Africa's plan to help protect sex workers against HIV and help them access treatment is a "flagship model" that should be followed by the rest of the world, Mark Dybul of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria told Africa's biggest Aids conference held in Cape Town last week.

Dybul lauded South Africa's National Strategic Plan for HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment for Sex Workers as a comprehensive plan that "showed remarkable leadership and (was) a flagship of how we must respond not only on this continent but around the world", Business Day reported.

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