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Sex Work Health and Safety
Occupational Health and Safety
Making
Sex Work Safe
Making Sex Work Safe covers key issues for those initiating
projects, including developing policies and strategies, what is safe
commercial sex, working with mobile populations and drug users, and
planning and evaluating projects. However, it does not attempt to be a
complete guide. (From
NSWP)
Men
in the Sex Industry
Articles and reports about health and safety for male sex workers (From
NSWP)
Occupational
health and safety amongst sex workers: a pilot peer education resource
(.pdf)
This paper presents an account of a pilot project to design and
implement an innovative, sex-worker-driven approach to peer education
in London. A 28-min, double-sided tape cassette containing extracts
of sex workers talking candidly about their work was compiled
from oral history recordings. The aims were to pilot process
issues in compiling the collaborative resource, and to
stimulate discussion of health and safety issues, exploring whether
the resource could potentially enhance positive changes in
sex workers' knowledge and awareness, self-esteem, and lifeskills. In
a limited pilot distribution, 15 sex workers and seven outreach workers
in London listened to the tape and completed short evaluation questionnaires.
The paper sets out strengths and weaknesses of the pilot
method, linking these to broader critical reflections on
issues raised about peer education to, for and by sex workers.
Sex
Industry - A Guide to Occupational Health and Safety in the New Zealand
The Guide sets out the relevant health and safety duties that are
necessary for owners, operators, employees, and other parties in the sex
industry. It aims to provide practical means of achieving those duties
by dealing with sex worker health, workplace amenities, and psychosocial
factors arising out of the industry. The emphasis is on covering a broad
range of relevant topics applicable to all sex workers to assist them to
implement best practice in their own workplaces. The Guide is
supplemented by fact sheets giving specific advice on topics of
importance to the document's users.
Harm Reduction
Harm
Reduction Coalition
The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is
committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and
communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national
harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. HRC
fosters alternative models to conventional health and human services and
drug treatment; challenges traditional client/provider relationships;
and provides resources, educational materials, and support to health
professionals and drug users in their communities to address
drug-related harm.The Harm Reduction Coalition believes in every
individual's right to health and well-being as well as in their
competency to protect and help themselves, their loved ones, and their
communities.
International
Harm Reduction Association
IHRA works
with local, national, regional and international organisations to assist
individuals and communities in the areas of Improving public health and
protecting human rights, Decreasing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other
blood borne infections, Fostering dialogue with other organizations,
Encouraging discussion about the relationship between drug policy and
public health, Promoting dialogue with the criminal justice system
regarding the interaction between public health and public order,
Encouraging the adoption of evidence based and cost effective prevention
and treatment strategies, Promoting and
supporting harm reduction networks, Encouraging effective efforts to
reduce initiation into drug use and the progression to problematic use,
Promoting balanced and accurate education about drugs in schools and the
community, Disseminating information through meetings and printed and
electronic publications, Developing and providing university education
and professional training, Creating and maintaining a data base of harm
reduction projects and practitioners, Supporting international exchange
activities, and Promoting research.
North
American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN)
Dedicated to the creation, expansion and
continued existence of syringe exchange programs as a proven method of
stopping the transmission of blood borne pathogens in the injecting drug
using community.
Sex
Worker Harm Reduction Initiative Project Directory
From OSI
Published in June 2001, the directory is a comprehensive listing of
IHRD's sex worker initiative grantees, IHRD partner organizations and
Technical Advisors, and additional contacts for funding, training, and
technical assistance. The directory provides descriptions of grantees'
work in harm reduction and sex work and offers background information on
this IHRD initiative.
Desiree
Alliance is a coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists,
professional sex educators and their supporting networks. We seek to
encourage a better understanding of human sexuality by promoting ethical
and unbiased research into sexual subcultures; to promote saner and more
sensible approaches to policies relating to adult sexual health and
behavior. We use this information to educate and empower the public to
have healthy and rational attitudes about sexuality.
Desiree
Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a
501(c)(3) non-profit.
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