The repeal of outdated apartheid-era laws would have a far-reaching, positive impact on individual sex workers’ health and well-being.
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The study reveals a consistently biased and negative depiction of sex workers by news media in Nigeria.
More people are getting involved in sex work, especially online – and it can be a lifeline for marginalized people.
“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
The car, the phone and the internet have changed the way the sex work industry operates, but debates about regulation have not advanced with new technologies.
In South Africa, female sex workers go for HIV tests, receive counselling and use condoms – but don’t access antiretroviral treatments. More options are now available and can change this.
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Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies & Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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Research fellow, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Women's Studies, University of Calgary
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Farmingdale State College
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Lecturer/Researcher, Department of Mass Communication,, National Open University of Nigeria
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Senior Research Associate in Sexual and Reproductive health, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello University
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Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of Nigeria
