title: Ecuador: police force HIV testing on detained transvestites.
abstract: In September 2000, Amnesty International reported that nine transvestite sex workers were detained by police in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 5 July 2000 for over three weeks on charges of crimes against decency and violating "public morals." AI believes they were detained solely because of their identity as transvestites, and notes that these are not isolated cases.
mesh_terms: D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004484:Ecuador; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D014190:Transvestism