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Republic. This intervention relied on five main components: holding collective workshops for sex workers, the owners of the establishments where sex workers meet clients, and other employees to forge a shared commitment to supporting safe-sex practices amongst sex workers and clients, encouraging establishments to display educational materials about safe-sex and make condoms widely available, training local clinicians and inspectors in the areas of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, ensuring that establishment owners are proactively engaging in ensuring that safe-sex protocols are followed, and facilitating the enforcement of regional government policy surrounding condom-use to establishment owners through frequent visitations from NGO staff and public health officials, and a sanctioning process for those who failed to adhere to requirements.
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