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Mysore group joins global club for sex workers’ project
Ashodaya Samiti, a sex workers’ collective in Mysore, has, for the first time, tied up with universities in Europe to conduct a comprehensive research on improving women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in India and in Africa.
Ashodaya Samiti has joined a consortium consisting of Universiteit Gent- International Centre For Reproductive Health (UG-ICRH), Belgium; International Centre for Reproductive Health Association, Kenya; Intern
ational Centre for Reproductive Health Association, Mozambique; University of Witwatrersrand, South Africa and University College of London to identify best practices in delivering a combined package of intervention for women and female sex workers.
The project — called Diagonal Interventions to Fast Forward Enhanced Reproductive Health (DIFFER), a specific international cooperation action collaborative — would expect to strengthen SRH in India with a model specific to its needs.
The project will focus on two channels for delivering improved SRH services -through public facilities at districts, such as family planning and HIV counselling and testing and through intervention designed for female sex workers through special mobile or satellite clinics.
