Vaishya Anyay Mukti Parishad (Sex Workers Free from Injustice), also known as VAMP, is a collective of sex-workers in Sangli, a small Indian border town on the commercial trucking routes between the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka.  Working since 1996 with the not-for-profit organization SANGRAM (founded 1992), VAMP has been a vocal and effective organizer around issues of HIV/AIDS awareness, testing and treatment, advocating for labor and human rights for sex workers, and empowering its members to tell their own stories and improve conditions in their communities.

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