Sex Work

March 20 is the National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The observance is a national effort to encourage American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians across the United States to get educated, tested, involved in prevention and get HIV treatment.

Policy Brief Health Outcomes Associated with Criminalization and Regulation of Sex Trade March 3, 2021 On this International Sex Worker Rights Day, we examine the criminalization of commercial sex trade and frameworks seeking to regulate it across the globe. Preventing the spread of disease, including sexually transmitted infections and HIV, are powerful levers for justifying […]

Full Report HIV Criminalization and Sex Work in California October 13, 2017 The vast majority of all HIV-specific criminal incidents in California involve people engaged in sex work or those suspected of engaging in sex work. A new report finds that women—and Black women, in particular—are the most disproportionately impacted by California’s sex work laws, […]