The Brazilian ministry of Health recognized the need to engage a community-based organization in AIDS prevention among sex workers, and so turned to the Prostitution and Civil Rights Programme (PCRP) in Rio de Janeiro to produce educational materials.
In the course of a campaign to provide AIDS education, information and related services to bar workers, outreach is a necessary strategy. This paper describes what outreach is, the direction it may take, who the bar workers are, where outreach is conducted and who performs outreach.