BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Transnational migration has been associated with HIV transmissi on. Although there was optimism that HIV rates are on the decline\, the 20 06 Report on the Global AIDS epidemic has documented that there are still significant gaps in many parts of the world in response to the problem. Pa rticularly low-paid unskilled migrant workers face a greater risk in becom ing infected with HIV with women being especially vulnerable because of th eir gendered identity and the nature of the work sector they enter. Fully aware of the threat of the spread of HIV as a result of mobility\, the Ind onesian government has integrated an HIV component into the mandatory pre- departure programme promulgated in 2005 for women migrants. Largely Indone sian women take on employment abroad in the domestic work sector. In analy sing the HIV component of the programme within the larger pre-departure pr ogramme\, this paper critiques the underlying assumption that the programm e actively informs these women migrants on HIV prevention since abstinence and saying “no” to sex outside marriage are the concepts that are constan tly emphasized. Based on participant observation of the pre-departure prog ramme and in-depth interviews with government officials\, international an d local NGO staff in Indonesia and twenty Indonesian domestic workers empl oyed in Singapore\, the paper asserts that the programme does little to em power these women but instead in focusing on individual sexual behaviour\, it tends to be victim blaming. \; DTEND:20100519T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T135903Z DTSTART:20100519T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:�No to Free Sex�: Transnational Women Migrants and Indonesia�s AIDS Prevention Efforts UID:RFCALITEM639141767435049906 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Transnational migration has been associated wi th HIV transmission. Although there was optimism that HIV rates are on the decline\, the 2006 Report on the Global AIDS epidemic has documented that there are still significant gaps in many parts of the world in response t o the problem. Particularly low-paid unskilled migrant workers face a grea ter risk in becoming infected with HIV with women being especially vulnera ble because of their gendered identity and the nature of the work sector t hey enter. Fully aware of the threat of the spread of HIV as a result of m obility\, the Indonesian government has integrated an HIV component into t he mandatory pre-departure programme promulgated in 2005 for women migrant s. Largely Indonesian women take on employment abroad in the domestic work sector. In analysing the HIV component of the programme within the larger pre-departure programme\, this paper critiques the underlying assumption that the programme actively informs these women migrants on HIV prevention since abstinence and saying “no” to sex outside marriage are the concepts that are constantly emphasized. Based on participant observation of the p re-departure programme and in-depth interviews with government officials\, international and local NGO staff in Indonesia and twenty Indonesian dome stic workers employed in Singapore\, the paper asserts that the programme does little to empower these women but instead in focusing on individual s exual behaviour\, it tends to be victim blaming. \; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR