(Page 2 of 2) Under the red light asked the Health Protection Agency, an independent agency set up by the Government to deal with infectious diseases, if there were any data available about the incidence of HIV among sex workers. We were told that such data doesn’t exist, even though figures were available about the [...]
A leading HIV charity says criminalizing sex work can only endanger efforts to prevent HIV and other STIs, by forcing sex workers “to go underground”. Instead, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has called for a change in sex work laws that would allow people involved in the sex trade to work together in a “safer” [...]
(Page 4 of 4) Despite the Government’s endorsement of exit programmes, sex workers’ rights campaigners have raised concerns about such projects, accusing their promoters of “pimping” on the agony of prostitutes. Cari Mitchell, from the English Collective of Prostitutes, questions the kind of alternative that programmes like U-Turn give to women. At the moment, “there [...]
(Page 3 of 4) Roger Matthews has come across some of these women in the past – women willing to leave prostitution behind. He teaches criminology at the London South Bank University and, as a researcher, he met street prostitutes and tried to capture their experiences. “I have interviewed a lot of women who worked [...]
(Page 2 of 4) It is 10.30 in the morning. Outside St Matthews Church in Bethnal Green, London, the grass is still wet with rain. The church’s fields are empty, like the steel benches spread across the garden. A few meters from the church, there is an orange brick house with a small yard surrounded [...]
