U.S. Global Aids Funding and its Discontents: Why the Supreme Court Must Strike Down the Anti-Prostitution Pledge

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Chi Mgbako

Fordham University School of Law

Date Written: June 11, 2013

Abstract

On April 22, 2013, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., a case whose outcome will affect international efforts to safeguard the health of sex workers, a marginalized population in the global HIV/AIDS response. At the case’s core rests the fate of the U.S. “anti-prostitution pledge,” a Congressional requirement attached to the 2003 United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act that forces U.S. and international-based organizations receiving U.S. global AIDS funding to adopt policies “opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.” The anti-prostitution pledge also prohibits these groups from using their private funds to engage in undefined activities that “promote” sex work.

Keywords: Sex Work, Anti-Prostitution Pledge, AIDS, United States

JEL Classification: K00

Suggested Citation

Mgbako, Chi, U.S. Global Aids Funding and its Discontents: Why the Supreme Court Must Strike Down the Anti-Prostitution Pledge (June 11, 2013). Yale Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2630198

Chi Mgbako (Contact Author)

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