Using Blogs for Advocacy Coordination

In September 2007, UNAIDS released a ‘guidance note’ that essentially reduces sex workers to ‘targets for intervention’ and ignores the critical and beneficial role that sex workers’ organisations and networks can play in many issues. Within days of the release of the UNAIDS note, a blog went up on the internet. The Global Working Group on HIV and Sex Work Policy brought civil society and sex workers’ groups together to create a cohesive, collaborative response, on behalf of sex workers around the world.