European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers

TAMPEP was the longest running EU project that was supported by Amnesty for Women e.V. from 1993 to 2009. This project was coordinated by Veronica Munk in the name of Amnesty for Women e.V.

TAMPEP is a European network intervention model that is addressed to female and transsexual sex workers from over 60 East European, Asian, African and Latin American states.

TAMPEP was financed by the European Commission for health care and was carried out in 25 European countries since 2000. The International Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands was the general coordinator.

The project created information material and supplied national and migrated sex workers with information about HIV/AIDS and STI, surveyed the life and working conditions of sex workers, supported the empowerment and self-esteem of the sex workers and advocated the human rights of the national and migrated sex workers on the local, national and international level.

Since 1995 TAMPEP has conducted street work in cooperation with the public health authority of Hamburg in order to reach the sex workers. This was carried out by an international team of cultural educated mediators and nurses.

In January 2011 Veronica Munk left Amnesty for Women e.V. Since then she is the official representative of TAMPEP International Foundation in Germany.