In 2018, research commissioned by Aidsfonds was conducted in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa on the impact of Community Empowerment on access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services (including HIV) in line with the Sex Worker Implementation Tools (SWIT) for female, male and transgender sex workers.

The studies were executed by three academic partners in equitable partnership with sex worker communities, utilizing community based participatory research (CBPR) methods and were finalized in 2019.

This paper summarizes the main findings and recommendations of the three studies.