title: Recognize sex work as legitimate work.
abstract: It is not sex work per se that makes sex workers vulnerable to HIV, but rather the policies that repress them. In this article, based on her presentation at a plenary session at the conference, Elena Reynaga, who is a sex worker, describes how these policies deprive sex workers of their rights and subject them to physical and sexual violence. The author concludes that at the heart of the problem lies the fact that sex work is not recognized as legitimate work.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reynaga
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011640:Public Policy; D011477:Sex Work; D014754:Violence; D035862:Vulnerable Populations