Short report in English of the work of the UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work during 2010.

This Guidance Note has been developed to provide the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat with a coordinated human rights based approach to promoting universal access2 to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the context of adult sex work.

This Guidance Note addresses the urgent need to provide and increase access to HIV programming for sex workers of all genders, HIV positive or negative. The Millennium Development Goals such as girls education, gender equality and poverty reduction, form the background contextual setting for this document. This Guidance Note will assist UN agencies and UNAIDS country programmes to develop sex work and HIV policy and services that are in line with governments commitments to improve their response to HIV/ AIDS, and with the ultimate objective of moving towards Universal Access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010.