Sex Workers Have Rights
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This infographic enumerates the rights that sex workers should be entitled to.
Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
Sex Workers Who Use Drugs
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Sex workers and people who use drugs are subject to widespread violations of their human rights, which, for the most part, go unchallenged. Globally, these groups are subjected to repressive and discriminatory laws, policies and practices. These policies and practices fuel stigma, discrimination, widespread violence, and significantly increase the risks and vulnerabilities of both populations to sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses, notably HIV and hepatitis B and C.
Community Guide: Sex Workers Who Use Drugs
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This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations. This document provides an overview of some of the most endemic and substantive ways in which sex workers who use drugs face double criminalisation and associated police harassment, intersectional stigma, compounded marginalisation and social exclusion, heightened interference and harassment from healthcare and other service providers, infantilisation, pathologisation, and an associated undermining of agency, choice, and self-determination.
Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) Strategic Plan 2016-2020
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This Strategic Plan sets out the key directions for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in 2016–20. It outlines how – in those five years – NSWP will build on its significant achievements and lessons to date, while also strengthening critical areas of its work and responding to a changing and challenging environment.
Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: Strategic Plan 2016-2020
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The Strategic Plan outlines how, in five years, Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) will build on its significant achievements and lessons to date, while also strengthening critical areas of its work and responding to a changing and challenging environment. The Strategic Plan is the result of extensive consultation among NSWP’s members and other stakeholders. This included a comprehensive Strategic Review of the network’s strengths and weaknesses in 2010–15.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Framework explains how NSWP will reflect on and learn from its work in 2016–20. It provides a means for the network to assess and report on its concrete results and progress – with indicators by which to measure outputs and outcomes. The Framework also outlines how NSWP will demonstrate the impact of its work – through a series of analytical case studies that show how the network’s Theory of Change works in practice and brings positive changes to the lives of sex workers around the world.
Briefing Paper: HIV and STI Testing and Treatment Policies
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This briefing paper explores sex workers' experiences of HIV and STI testing and treatment programmes from a global perspective. Sex workers are rarely included in the development and implementation of programming.
Policy Brief: Access Challenges for HIV Treatment among People Living with HIV and Key Populations in Middle-Income Countries
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This policy brief examines the challenges to affordable HIV treatment access in MICs amongst people living with HIV (PLHIV) and key populations.
Briefing Note: Universal Health Coverage
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This Briefing Note outlines Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the challenges it presents for sex workers and other criminalised populations.
Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions
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This tool is the product of collaboration among sex workers, service providers, researchers, government officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world, as well as United Nations agencies, and development partners from the United States.
Sex Workers’ Experiences of Stock-outs of HIV/STI Commodities and Treatments
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Sex workers experienced stock-outs of antiretroviral drugs for HIV in more than half of the countries that responded to the consultation, in all types of health care settings. Sex workers experience forced treatment interruptions and involuntary medication changes due to stock-outs, and are forced to travel long distances to access commodities and treatments due to stock-outs in their local areas. This ultimately leads to a lack of trust in health services and systems.