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KAREGWA MUCHIRI has invited you to the event ‘The 2nd National Bar Hostess Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence in Kenya’ on Culture and Development!

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Check out “The 2nd National Bar Hostess Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence in Kenya” on Culture and Development!

Thanks,

– KAREGWA MUCHIRI

Time: October 27, 2008 at 8am to October 28, 2008 at 6pm
Location: Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi
Organized By: MS SILVIA MICHO:

Event Description:
Dear Partner,

Purple Images is in the process of organizing the 2nd National Bar Hostess AIDS Conference slated for October 27th – 28th. The 1st conference was first organized in 2006 and was a success with kind support from Ministry of Health, Hivos Netherlands, Legal Refource Foundation , East African Breweries Ltd, National Aids Control Council , Kenya AIDS NGOS Consortium , and the World Health Organization, which attracted local and international publicity with the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC (www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa /4783631.stm) and CNN, Reuters, China and French media giving the conference International attention. The upcoming conference is already gathering support from the media, Communication Initiative Network and other partners(www.comminit.com/en/node/273507)
The main objective of the conference is to reach a high risk group to promote behavior change communication to reduce the incidence and the impact of HIV/AIDS and sexual violence among bar maids while bringing into the public lime light and policy issues that affect bar maids such as employment conditions.
With regard to sexual violence, bar hostesses are socially stigmatized and discriminated. Most bar patrons regard bar hostesses as third rate citizens and often as mere sex objects to be abused. The bar hostess profession is socially stigmatized by health officials and the police in particular are known to harass bar hostesses as either “disease carriers or criminals.’ A majority bar hostesses have found themselves exposed to all forms of Sexual Violence including forced and unprotected sex and physical Sexual Violence from their supervisors, employers, the police and even their clients and partners. Apart from the forced sex, some bar hostesses are daily physically assaulted and raped while others voluntarily have one or more sexual partners in one day.

In this regard, The Kenya Bar Hostess Aids Programme and Purple Images Productions have organized the second two–day national conference on Bar Hostess and HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence. The theme of the conference is “Towards Empowering Bar Hostesses to Fight HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence.�

Yours Sincerely
Sylvia Micho
Nairobi
Telephone: 254-20-4450937/ 4452674
Cell: 254-722 940081/ 722 634947
Email: info@purpleimages.com
Website: www.purpleimages.com

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Date:  Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:24:15 +0000 (GMT)
From:  KAREGWA MUCHIRI
Subject:  Come join me at The 2nd National Bar Hostess Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence in Kenya on Culture and Development…