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A survey of Australian sex workers exploring the link between stigma and reduced access to health care [PDF]

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
Background Despite extensive evidence of the negative impacts of stigma on sex worker wellbeing, less research explores the link between stigma and reduced access to health care. This paper explores sex work stigma and its association with reduced access
Elena Cama, Kacey Martin, Loren Brener, Mish Pony, Carla Treloar, Greta Desgraves, Timothy Broady   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies

PLoS Medicine, 2018
Background Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional ill health, harms that have been linked to the criminalisation of sex work.
Teela Sanders, Susan Gail Sherman, Lucy Platt   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Access to Healthcare in a time of COVID-19: Sex Workers in Crisis in Nairobi, Kenya

Global Public Health, 2020
This paper uses empirical data collected from 117 female sex workers living in informal settlements in Nairobi and 15 healthcare providers to highlight specific effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on healthcare access for the sex workers.
Teela Sanders, Susan Gichuna, Peninah Mwangi   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Correction: What we need, not what we’re given: recommendations for action from young sex workers who use drugs [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Marie Schneider, Josephine Achieng, Rebeca Calzada Olvera, Young Sex Workers Who Use Drugs Group, Brett Koenig, Jenn McDermid   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Invisible and stigmatized: A systematic review of mental health and risk factors among sex workers

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2023
Sex work is a common phenomenon, but socially invisible and stigmatized. Due to exposure to work‐related risks, sex workers (SWs) are vulnerable to developing health problems. However, little attention has been paid to their mental health. The purpose of
Laura Martín-Romo, Francisco J. Sanmartín, Judith Velasco   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘I Wouldn’t Call the Cops if I was Being Bashed to Death’: Sex Work, Whore Stigma and the Criminal Legal System

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Discourse on sex work is replete with narratives of risk and danger, predominantly focused on violence and disease. However, the risks instigated by police, maintained by the criminal justice system and sanctioned by the state—criminal laws, licensing ...
Zahra Stardust, Carla Treloar, Elena Cama, Jules Kim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interventions to improve health and the determinants of health among sex workers in high-income countries: a systematic review

Lancet Public Health, 2022
Summary Many sex worker populations face high morbidity and mortality, but data are scarce on interventions to improve their health. We did a systematic review of health and social interventions to improve the health and wider determinants of health ...
L. Johnson, L. Potter, Harriet Beeching, Molly Bradbury, Bella Matos, Grace Sumner, Lorna Wills, Kitty Worthing, R. Aldridge, G. Feder, A. Hayward, N. Pathak, Lucy Platt, A. Story, B. Sultan, S. Luchenski   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sex Worker Collectives Within the Whorearchy: Intersectional Inquiry with Sex Workers in Los Angeles, CA

Affilia, 2022
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights movement.
Kimberly Fuentes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Sex Workers to Manage Occupational Health and Safety: Scoping Review

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021
Background In many countries, sex work is criminalized, driving sex work underground and leaving sex workers vulnerable to a number of occupational health and safety risks, including violence, assault, and robbery.
Thérèse Bernier, Amika Shah, L. Ross, C. Logie, E. Seto   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unfinished Decriminalization: The Impact of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on Migrant Sex Workers’ Rights and Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

Social Sciences, 2021
In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section
Calum Bennachie, Annah Pickering, Jenny Lee, P. G. Macioti, Nicola Mai, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Calogero Giametta, Heidi Hoefinger, Jennifer Musto   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source