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978-3-030-64171-9

Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

Publication Date: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-64171-9

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and economic exclusion and marginalization. Although previous work has largely emphasized an elevated burden and gaps in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) services in sex work, less attention has been paid to the broader health and human rights concerns faced by sex workers. This contributed volume addresses this gap.


Subject: Medicine / Public Health / Human Rights / Epidemiology / Health Promotion and Disease / Prevention / Social Structure, Social Inequality / Health Policy / sex work law reform / human rights violations and labor rights and protections / health disparities and health equity / epidemiology / marginalized populations / women's health, sexual health and reproductive health / HIV / AIDS / structural determinants / integrated interventions / harm reduction / stigma / sex worker criminalization and decriminalized settings / blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) / global burden of violence / global mental health / safety and health promotion / substance use / community mobilization and empowerment / migration and mobility