Peru

• It is an offense to operate a brothel unless it has a license.
• It is an offense to sell sex without being registered to do so. To register as a sex worker women must be over 18 years of age and free of HIV and STIs.
• A card is issued to confirm recent attendance for mandatory HIV and STI testing. NGO outreach workers provide antibiotics as STI prophylaxis to sex workers in some parts of the country. 
• Law enforcement is inconsistent and, according to sex worekrs police are corrupt and frequently violent especially to transwomen. 
• There are both legal/formal and illegal/informal sectors on the sex industry.
• It is not illegal to buy sex.

ISOCode: 

PE

Aspects: 

H: It is illegal to sell sex and organise commercial sex except where permission is given by a licensing authority that applies conditions such as health provisions and restrictions on how and where the person or business can operate (eg Senegal)

Characteristics: 

1: There are laws or regulations that require sex workers to undergo medical examination (e.g. Latvia)

8: Laws such as public disorder, vagrancy, loitering and state recognised religious provisions are used to prosecute women who sell sex. (e.g. Malaysia)

9: There are laws to prevent women living with HIV from selling sex or requiring them to disclose their HIV status to clients (e.g. USA)