UK government is failing sex workers
...ainst the most disadvantaged. Criminalisation of prostitution limits access to health and social care and contra...tions' guidelines on human rights. "Only by moving prostitution out of the criminal justice system and focusing on public health and social care can we provide opti...Resurgence and spread of syphilis in China is a rapidly increasing epidemic
...and a cultural climate that favors re-emergence of prostitution due to a substantial majority of men and a large migrant population of male workers, the report says. Changing social practices such as people experimenting with sex at earlier ages and before marriage, as well as increasing costs of individual healt...The greater the number of bars in a neighborhood, the higher the rates of assault
...other crimes occur such as illegal drug sales and prostitution that are related to violence." "This study represents one of the strongest tests of the alcohol outlet/violence relationship," said Scribner. "There was also an unexpected finding: the degree to which this effect is amplified when spatially lagged ...UK plans to cut street prostitution will threaten sex workers' health
...ce strategy aims to challenge the view that street prostitution is inevitable; achieve an overall reduction in str...oercion, drug dependency, and lack of choices, not prostitution itself. BMJ Editor, Fiona Godlee also supports the idea of legalisation. "It is surely time for an e...Jewelry-making program empowers participants, reduces HIV risk
...ted women using illegal drugs who were involved in prostitution in Baltimore, Md. They implemented six two-hour sessions to teach not only HIV-prevention risk reduction but also the making, marketing and selling of jewelry. The women sold the handmade jewelry at 11 public sales and earned more than $7,000. Three ...