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Name of story : Sex workers want their trade legalised
Name of journalist : Tebogo Madisa
Name of publications : The Echo
Date : 210911
Country :Botswana
Theme : Sex work, unemployment,human rights
Skills : language
Genre : News
Gem classification : Gender blind
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Sex workers are agitating for government to enact a law that will recognise and govern their profession . They called for dynamism at government enclave arguing that the public coffers stand to be boosted by taxes from the trade. They contended that a statutory recognition of their trade would also enable them to access free government sponsored anti retroviral ( ARVs) drugs to prolong their lives. They made the submissions recently at a workshop in Gaborone organised under the auspices of the Botswana Council of Churches, which gives support and care to sex workers in terms of education and counselling.
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