ERIC Number: ED544495
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1324-9320
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Sexperts! Disrupting Injustice through HIV Prevention and Legal Rights Education with Transgenders in Thailand
Walsh, Christopher S.; Chaiyajit, Nada
Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), Paper presented at the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference (AARE-APERA 2012) World Education Research Association (WERA) Focal Meeting (Sydney, New South Wales, Dec 2-6, 2012)
In addition to growing epidemics of HIV transgenders in Thailand, a low awareness of how to access justice increases their vulnerability to HIV infection. This paper presents a unique case study of how one community-based and led organisations used social networking and instant messaging to address this problem among transgender community in Thailand. It describes and analyses how online peer-based health counseling integrated HIV education and prevention alongside access to justice through free university-based clinical legal education (CLE) works to empower transgenders. It argues that a community-based approach that integrates HIV prevention and education and access to justice within a wider
sexual health programme, through digital technologies, is a sustainable approach for other populations disproportionately at risk of HIV. Furthermore digital media offer strategic opportunities to overcome on-going political violence alongside entrenched stigma and discrimination that disrupt denial of access to justice. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexual Identity, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Peer Teaching, Counseling Techniques, Empowerment, Educational Technology, Sex Education, Health Promotion, Legal Aid, Social Bias, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Social Discrimination, Intervention, Internet
Australian Association for Research in Education. AARE Secretariat, One Geils Court, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia. Tel: +61-2-6285-8388; e-mail: aare@aare.edu.au; Web site: http://www1.aare.edu.au
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Identifiers - Location: Thailand
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