Sex Workers

The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis

Blurb online What makes sex work dangerous are the laws, policies and attitudes that surround it

Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation

Thandeka, who has been working in the sector for 13 years, says a new reality TV series is edifying

A new bill that seeks to decriminalise sex work is now open for public comment

Re-opening of South Africa’s prostitution law reform debate makes the mistake of assuming it is work and not exploitation.

We condemn the killing of a black Americans, yet women, African foreigners and queer people are regularly abused and killed in SA

Those on the street say that the usual abuse has intensified under the lockdown

Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years

The convention is critical in terms of promoting and protecting the rights of working women

One in three sex workers in South Africa say they’ve been raped by a police officer. Could a change in the law solve this?

Sex work is selling a service, not your body, says Mariska Majoor. There’s nothing sinister about it.

Tasers, rubber bullets, pangas, dogs and snakes are used to rid a Jo’burg suburb of its ‘immoral’ sex workers

Their chief concern is the wellbeing of their children so that they can do better than their mothers

Joan Collins* worked as an intensive care nurse in Cape Town. But that’s not the only way she made a living.