More than a hundred sex workers and supporters marched in Mexico City on Wednesday, asking the government to recognize their legal status and guarantee access to HIV medication after fears of shortages under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Sex work is legal in much of Mexico but states have different rules, and workers frequently operate in legal vacuums without protections - making it an often dangerous occupation.
The activists at the march were also worried about cuts in public funding to nonprofits and changes to the way the government buys HIV medication, a move which public health experts and LGBT+ rights . . .
