Community Recommendations on HIV Prevention & Care
For too long, people in the sex trades have been studied, theorized about, and "served" by people who've never walked in our shoes. With funding from a Positive Action Grant from ViiV Healthcare, New Moon sought to change this dynamic by putting people with lived experience in the sex trades in the role of experts making public health recommendations about HIV prevention and care.
Leading with Lived Experience
In 2025, New Moon enlisted our colleagues at Reframe Health & Justice to convene leaders and direct service providers from 14 sex worker-serving organizations (SWSO’s) in New Moon’s grantee network. This peer-learning group was dubbed the Sex Worker Health & Harm Reduction Cohort (SWHHRC), the goal of which was to build the skills and capacity of sex work community leaders to employ and promote HIV prevention and harm reduction strategies.
Gratitude
We’re immensely proud of the people in SWHHRC who collaborated to create these community-driven recommendations. We’re grateful to ViiV Healthcare for recognizing the importance of supporting leadership with lived experience, and for entrusting New Moon with a Positive Action Grant. We’d also like to thank Justice Rivera from RHJ for her incredible facilitation of the SWHHRC group, and our colleagues at A Great Idea for making the recommendations into a beautifully designed PDF.
Click here to read the publication
Every recommendation comes from people who understand the real barriers to accessing HIV prevention and care, and who have built solutions from the ground up in their own communities.
Click here to watch a webinar
SWHHRC hosted this webinar on World AIDS Day 2025 to share their recommendations and host a community Q&A about their process and findings.
