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Dr. Anna-Louise Crago, PhD, the CGSHE project lead and Banting post-doctoral scholar at the U of O, said the current legal framework, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, put in place in 2014, places emphasis on criminalizing clients, and third parties like managers, security personnel and sex workers who share commercial expenses or work outdoors. “The stated aim of the law was to assist exploited persons and to assist exploited persons to report violence against themselves,” said Crago. “What is so alarming about our findings is that the law has clearly, clearly failed.” Although Ottawa had the worst outcomes overall for sex workers, Crago said, “the outcomes were alarming across all cities overall.”
Want to reduce COVID-19? Target high-risk populations, health experts urge
Two doctors who study COVID-19 say that when it comes to reducing the spread of the virus, Canadian health officials should focus more on tactics to help high-risk populations instead of imposing blanket restrictions on everyone.
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Male health in general tends to be understudied and neglected, and though research and resources for sex workers remain limited overall, that’s even more so the case for male sex workers.
It’s something that Health Initiative for Men (HIM) executive director Greg Oudman told the
Georgia Straight in an interview in 2019 about HIM’s Hustle: Men on the Move program, a Vancouver outreach and support program for men involved in sex work.
The Vancouver-based Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE) is endeavouring to address this imbalance by conducting research on the health and safety of men (including those who are cisgender and transgender, non-binary, and two spirit) who work in sex industries in Metro Vancouver.
PrEP prescription can make a positive difference in women who inject drugs
When taken daily, pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a highly effective way to prevent HIV transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now a new study shows that implementing PrEP distribution within a community-based syringe services program gets the medication into the hands of women who inject drugs a population disproportionately impacted by HIV.
The results, from researchers at Drexel University s Dornsife School of Public Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, were recently published in the
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
In the first demonstration project among women who inject drugs, known as Project Sexual Health Equity (Project SHE), the team prescribed up to 24 weeks of daily PrEP, to 95 adult cisgender women those whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. The study was based at the largest syringe services program in t