Abstract
AbstractThis volume uses community case studies and data from around the world to highlight the sustained health and social inequities that sex workers in all of their diversity experience in 2020. Guided by a balanced community–academic partnership, this volume aims to ensure that sex workers’ voices are amplified in describing both challenges and the ways forward. Collectively, the chapters describe an elevated burden of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, drug-related harms, violence and other human rights violations, and significant unmet sexual and reproductive health needs. They also demonstrate that sex workers are not passive recipients of such inequity, but rather actively resist and continue to mobilise to advocate for improved health, safety, and human rights conditions and policy changes. Evidence-based recommendations include sex work decriminalisation, ensuring accessible and sex worker-friendly services, removal of punitive policing and surveillance, community empowerment, and strengthening capacity for community engagement in research, policy, and programmes.
Highlights
Based on a powerful combination of sex worker community and academic evidence, this edited volume highlights the unacceptable health and social inequities that sex workers in all their diversity continue to face across diverse global and policy contexts
This edited volume aims to provide a comprehensive overview of health and human rights inequities faced by sex workers around the world
The chapters describe an elevated burden of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and drug-related harms; persistent and unacceptable experiences of violence and other human rights violations; and significant unmet sexual and reproductive health needs. This edited volume demonstrates that sex workers are not passive recipients of such structural inequity and violence, but rather actively resist and demonstrate tremendous resilience in the face of these harms
Summary
Based on a powerful combination of sex worker community and academic evidence, this edited volume highlights the unacceptable health and social inequities that sex workers in all their diversity continue to face across diverse global and policy contexts. Interdisciplinary author teams comprised of academic researchers, sex workers, and sex worker-led organisations collaboratively developed each chapter to synthesise research evidence as well as highlight lessons learned from local-level experiences across different regions. This edited volume aims to provide a comprehensive overview of health and human rights inequities faced by sex workers around the world. It aims to articulate structural determinants of sex workers’ health and occupational outcomes (e.g. legislation, migration, healthcare delivery settings) and describe evidence-based interventions and ‘best practices’, including the roles of full decriminalisation of sex work, community empowerment models, and multi-level and integrated intervention. Goldenberg (*) Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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