The Brazilian government turned down $40 million in U.S. anti-HIV/AIDS funding in 2005, because the U.S. government required all recipients to sign an anti-prostitution pledge. Brazil's AIDS comissioner Pedro Chequer was quoted as saying "Sex workers are part of implementing our AIDS policy and deciding how to promote it. They are our partners. How could we ask prostitutes to take a position against themselves?" [ [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050530/kaplan Just Say Não] , "The Nation", 12 May 2005] The Brazilian anti-AIDS program, which employs prostitutes to hand out information and free condoms, is considered by the United Nations to be the most successful in the developing world. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030102316.html Where Prostitutes Also Fight AIDS] , "Washington Post", 2 March 2006]
Child prostitution
The Brazilian government is increasingly frustrated with the fact that a number of foreign tourists travel to Brazil seeking for sex tourism, [Citation
date = 2005-01-27
title = Brazil maps child prostitution
publisher = BBC News
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4212133.stm
accessdate = 2008-08-08] including child prostitution. [Citation
last = Gentile
first = Carmen J.
date = 2005-02-05
title = Brazil cracks down on child prostitution
publisher = San Francisco Chronicle
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/05/MNG0TB6KQV1.DTL
accessdate = 2008-08-08] The government of Brazil is working stringently to clamp down particularly at child prostitution. [Citation
date = 2004-02-12
title = Brazil to fight sex tourism as Carnival nears
publisher = China Daily
url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-02/12/content_305401.htm
accessdate = 2008-08-08] [Citation
date = 2004-12-02
title = Brazil struggles to curb sex tourism
publisher = BBC News
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4061325.stm
accessdate = 2008-08-08] Child prostitution in Brazil is widespread and a serious problem. The phenomenon is closely related with high levels of poverty and inequality in the country. [Citation
last = de Oliveira
first = Selma B.
year = 1995
title = Child prostitution on the rise in Brazil
publisher = International Child Resource Institute
url =http://pangaea.org/street_children/latin/prost.htm
accessdate = 2008-08-08]
Other countries
High numbers of Brazilian prostitutes are found in some regions of the United States and Western Europe, including Portugal, Spain, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
References
External links
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/international/americas/24brazil.html Prostitution Puts U.S. and Brazil at Odds on AIDS Policy]
* [http://www.prostitutionprocon.org/international.htm#brazil Prostitution around the world]
* [http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1997/issue4/0497p56.html Brazil and UNICEF Join to End Child Prostitution]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-01-brazil-sextourism_x.htm Brazil starts operation to curb 'sex tourism']
* [http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/brazil.htm Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation]
* [http://www.unodc.org/pdf/brazil/Human%20rights%20reports%20-Brazil-%20tr%E1fico%20de%20pessoas.doc Factors That Contribute to the Trafficking Infrastructure ]
