This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.SABC News reports that sex workers organisation, Sisonke, says the halting of the US President’s Pepfar funding has left their members vulnerable.
President Donald Trump pulled the plug on the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding fund last month. SA has received billions of US dollars to help control the spread and effects of HIV/AIDS since Pepfar’s inception in 2003. More than 100,000 people in the country are believed to be engaged in sex work. Sisonke National Movement Spokesperson, Yonela Sinqu, explained that the now closed mobile clinics provided non-discriminatory healthcare to their members. “Those clinics used to offer not only HIV care, but they also used to offer psychosocial support for our members. So, they used to offer gender affirming therapy for our other members who are transitioning from male to female, or female to male. We also had programs for people who use or inject drugs. So this is the connection that we had with these clinics, of keeping our members safe and keeping our members healthy. And we’d also seen an increase in the number of clients of sex workers also engaging with these clinics,” Sinqu pointed out.
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