THE executive director of the Rights Not Rescue (RNR) sex workers' organisation, Nicodemus 'Mama Africa' Aochumub, says the planned annual general meeting of his organisation with donors and the media has been postponed until next year.
Aochumub said the postponement was due to the "heavy workload and the targets set by its donors - we need to reach these targets".
He did not specify what these targets were.
The RNR has 1 000 members countrywide.
The AGM was supposed to discuss a number of issues facing sex workers in the country, including the decriminalisation of sex work and HIV-AIDS, and also to elect new leaders.
Aochumub told The Namibian that younger sex workers were being groomed to take over leadership and to run RNR projects.
"Youths have to be prepared for leadership, what happens when old hawks like us die or something happens," said Aochumub.
The Rights Not Rescue organisation was officially registered in 2010 although it started as a movement in the 1980s, according to Aochumub.
He said the spread of HIV-AIDS would not be halted until the government abolished "apartheid era" laws which discriminated against sex workers.
The RNR, he said, was committed to the UNAIDS zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero new HIV infections campaign, as sex workers wanted to play a visible part in the fight against the deadly pandemic in Namibia.
He encouraged members to go for regular HIV testing and for those who have tested positive for HIV to take their antiretroviral drugs regularly.
Aochumub said his organisation was becoming part of the global movement fighting for the rights of sex workers through its affiliation to the Global Network of Sex Workers.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201209170522.html
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