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Sexual assault

Sexually transmitted infection

Substance use

Violence and safety

Steven Kurtz: Barriers to health and social services for street-based sex workers. J Healthcare Poor Under 2005 (pdf)

Rekart: Sex-work harm reduction. Lancet 2005 (pdf)

Linda Cusick

Widening the harm reduction agenda. from drug use to sex work. IJDP 2006 (pdf)

Defining sex work as work. International Harm Reduction Association Warsaw 2007 (Power Point/pdf)

Presentation: National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) Dublin June 2009 (Power Point)[1]

Nickki Jeal

Jeal and Salisbury: Health needs assesment of street-based prostitutes. J Pub Health 2004 (pdf)

Jeal and Salisbury: Self-reported experiences of health services among female street-based prostitutes. Br J Gen Prac 2004

Jeal and Salisbury: Health needs and service needs of prostitutes. BJOG July 2007 (pdf)

Teela Sanders

A continuum of risk: The management of health, physical and emotional risks by female sex workers. Soc Health Illness 2004 (pdf)

Sanders: Protecting the health of sex workers. BJOG July 2007 (pdf)

Occupational health

St James Infirmary: Occupational Health and Safety Handbook (pdf)

Substance Use

The Vienna Declaration

Amy Young: Prostitution, drug use and coping. J Drug Issues 2000 (pdf)

Martha Medrano: Childhood trauma and prostitution in a drug-using population. Am J Drug Alc Abuse 2003 (pdf)

Hilary Surratt: Sex work and drug use and violence. Crime Delinquency 2004 (pdf)

Nuttbrock: Linking sex workers with substance abuse treatment. J Subs Abuse Treat 2004 (pdf)

Kate Shannon et al. Social and structural violence and power relations in mitigating HIV risk Soc Sci Med 2008 (pdf)

Kate Shannon et al: Mapping violence and policing as an environmental-structural barrier to health services. IJDP 2008 (pdf)

Kate Shannon: Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers. BMJ 2009

Commentary: New evidence devastates govt sex worker laws. Politics UK

Sexually Transmitted Diseases-HIV/AIDS

Diane Meaghan. A Comparative Investigation Of Safer Sex Practices Among Canadian And New Zealand Prostitutes. NALL 2000

Diane Meaghan: AIDS and sex workers; A case for patriarchy interruptus. Can Woman Studies 2001 (pdf)

Lois Jackson: HIV prevention programmes and female prostitutes (Canada). ACEWH 2002 pp 86-92 (pdf)

Lee et al: The incidence of sexually transmitted infections among sex workers. Sex Trans Inf 2005

Teela Sanders: Female sex workers as health educators. Soc Sci Med 2006 (pdf)

Kate Shannon: Structural and environmental barriers to condom use negotiation with clients AJPH 2009 (pdf)

Anna Forbes. Sex Work, Criminalization, and HIV: Lessons from Advocacy History. Beta 2010 (pdf)

WHO Sex Work Toolkit 2004

Pascal Tanguay: The overlap between injecting drug use and sex work. Exchange 2006(4) pp31-2 (pdf)

UNAIDS 2006 Annual Report (pdf)

Gaffney et al (eds.) Practical guidelines for delivering health services to sex workers. Correlation 2008 (pdf)

Melissa Ditmore: Access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment care and support for sex workers. AIDS Fonds 2009 (pdf)

Journals

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Violence and Safety

Stephanie Wahab: Introduction. (Special issue on violence and sex work) J Interpers Viol 2005 (pdf)

(Table of Contents)

Sanders and Campbell: Designing out vulnerability. Brit J Sociol 2007 (pdf)

A call for action to end violence against women in the sex industry. IUSW 2009 (pdf)

Policing sex work. (from Incite Toolkit) (pdf)[2]

Sexual Assault

B Sullivan: Rethinking prostitution and 'consent'. APSA 2000 (Word)

B Sullivan: Can a prostitute be raped? APSA 2003 (pdf)

B Sullivan: Rape, prostitution and consent. ANZJ Crim 2007 (abstract)

Stigma

Population Council: HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination. 2002

Graham Scambler: Sociology, social structure and health related stigma. Psych Health Med 2006 (abstract)

(See also remainder of papers in Special Issue 11(3) August 2006: Health related stigma)

Royal Tropical Institute (Netherlands): Health-related stigma

International Consortium for Research and Action Against Health-related Stigma (ICRAAS)

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Last updated: April 21, 2011

Dr Michael Goodyear, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

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[1] ‘Sex work occurs where one party considers the experience as sex, another considers the experience as work and both recognise and agree to accommodate the other’s perspective.”