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AIDS 2014

AIDS 2014. Women who use drugs: Trans women and drugs Nyah Harwood. Women who use drugs: Trans women and drugs. Nyah Harwood Centre for social research in health, University of New South Wales & International Network of Women Who Use Drugs. HIV Statistics.

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AIDS 2014

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  1. AIDS 2014 Women who use drugs: Trans women and drugs Nyah Harwood

  2. Women who use drugs: Trans women and drugs Nyah Harwood Centre for social research in health, University of New South Wales & International Network of Women Who Use Drugs

  3. HIV Statistics • Trans women have the highest rates of HIV of any group: • A research project in Rome confirmed HIV seroprevalence rate of 74% among trans women who use drugs • Also demonstrated that 100% of people in the sample population of travestis and transsexuals were HIV- positive after being in the milieu for more than four years • Sao Paulo revealed an HIV seroprevalence rate of 78% among travestis who were imprisoned • 62% HIV seroprevalence rate among trans women in Buenos Aires • Rio de Janeiro indicated 63.8% seroprevalence • Early1990s Atlanta indicated HIV seroprevalence rates of 68% among transsex workers • Sex workers in Lisbon - HIV seroprevalence rate = 46.4% • Sex working trans women who use drugs in Sydney 21% (pre 2000) (Namaste, 2000)

  4. Epistemic violence and erasure • Erasure of trans people • Social justice/harm reduction interventions • formulated around the perspectives of the most marginalised

  5. Shared goals • Bodily autonomy • Access to ‘treatment’/medical care without pathologisation • De/criminalisation • (bio)medicalisation/(de)pathologisation • DSM IV - Gender Identity Dysphoria • Substance abuse (disorder) • sex work

  6. What can be done - (not so) Human Rights (?) • “the matrix of gender relations is prior to the emergence of the "human””(Butler, 1993). • In this way, one cannot be human without first being ascribed a gender.

  7. Conclusion Critical thought in regards to the issue of sex/gender must be interwoven in the formulation of harm reduction praxis and not just an afterthought.

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