Cusick, Linda and McGarry, Kathryn and Perry, Georgina and Kilcommons, Sian (2010) Drug services for sex workers: approaches in England and Ireland. Safer Communities, 9, (4), pp. 32-39. https://doi.org/10.5042/sc.2010.0583.
In this paper, academics and managers of specialist services reflect on the shifting policy and funding landscapes that shape service provision for drug-using sex workers in England and Ireland. The paper outlines the harm reduction and holistic principles that underpinned much original service provision concerned with public health in the face of an HIV epidemic and the limitations of services that equate drug use minimisation with sex work minimisation. It concludes that an ‘exiting’ and victim discourse dovetails with the well-funded crime and disorder agenda, and that lobbyists on these issues are proving to be natural allies against harm reduction.
F Concepts in psychology > Behaviour > Risk-taking behaviour
G Health and disease > Disease by cause (Aetiology) > Communicable / infectious disease > HIV
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method > Substance disorder drug therapy (pharmacological treatment)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Risk and protective factors > Risk factors
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health related issues > Health information and education > Communicable / infectious disease control > Safe sex / sexual health
MM-MO Crime and law > Public order offence / social code crime > Prostitution / sex-work
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom > England
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