Officer) International Network of people who use drugs jaylevy@inpud.net Jay Levy Advocacy and policy officer Sex Workers rights advocacy network swansecretariat@swannet.org TAMPEP Info@tampep.eu Sweden Rose Alliance Pye Jacobson Norway Sex workers interest organisation in Norwaty pion@pion-norge.no Iceland Human trafficking centre, Iceland Jenni Hankel UK UK network of sex work projects Streetreach Project Marilyn Haughton Womens Breakout .womensbreakout.org.uk/contact-us/ Sex worker open university Toni UK (England) English Collective of Prostitutes Working mens project .nhs.uk X:talk .com English collective of prostitutes MASH Helen Clayton Bradford working womens project Michelle Khan or Diane Woodhead UK (Scotland) SCOT-PEP voice@scot-pep.org.uk Streetwork jan@streetwork.org.uk Jan Williamson Head of Services SACRO Louise King THT Highland Info_highland@tht.org.uk THT Scotland Info.scotland@tht.org.uk ROAM enquiries@roam_outreach.com Drugs Action Quay Services Senga Macdonald Northern Ireland The Rainbow Project Netherlands SOA Aids Netherlands New Zealand New Zealand Prostitutes Collective info@nzpc.org.nz Catherine Healy Canada Maggies Maggiescoord@gmail.com Gender & Sexual Health Initiative: AESHA The SHAWNA Project (Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS: Women's Longitudinal Needs Assessment) The coalition of the rights of sex workers Lacoalition2000@yahoo.com FIRST/ SHAW joycearthur@shaw.ca Joyce arthur Aidslaw : Canadian hiv/aids legal network Stephanie POWER powerottawa@gmail.com Sex workers action group SWAN Vancouever Info@swanvancouver.ca Alison Clancey Executive Director Sex Professional of Canada Sida-Voe Laval (venus project) Venus_svl@hotmail.com Stella PACE USA Helping individual prostitutes survive hips@hips.org Swaay; Sex Work Activists, Allies, and You swaay@swaay.org HOOK hawkkinkaid@gmail.com PERSIST Health project Prostitutes of New York
Red Umbrella Project info@redumbrellaproject.org Sex workers outreach project Women with vision South Africa Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) http://www.sweat.org.za/contact-us/ South African National Aids Council connie Dr Constance Kganakga, Australia Prof Donovan Database search strategy Electronic databases Including the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Prospero (a database of systematic reviews), PubMed, EMBASE, the Social Sciences Index, Social Services Abstracts, Web of Knowlege and JSTOR. Manual search of the Internet and Google Scholar. Database Search terms* Returned items Full texts Relevant PubMed ‘sex worker’ [mesh terms include ‘prostitute/prostitutes/prostitution’] AND ‘HIV’ [mesh terms including ‘Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Virus, AIDS Virus, AIDS Viruses, AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Viruses, Human Immunodeficiency Acquired Immune] 76 articles screened by title and abstract review 6 articles read in full 4 articles relevant to the review- references within these articles were hand searched for additional relevant literature
Social Science Index ‘sex worker’ OR ‘prostitute’ OR ‘prostitution’ AND ‘HIV’ 23 articles screened by title and abstract 9 articles read in full 5 articles relevant to the review- references within these articles were hand searched for additional relevant literature Web of Science ‘sex worker’ OR ‘prostitute’ OR ‘prostitution’ AND ‘HIV’ AND ‘purchase of sex’ 33 articles screened by title and abstract 4 articles read in full 3 articles relevant to the review- references within these articles were hand searched for additional relevant literature Embase (13/03) ‘sex worker’ OR ‘prostitute’ OR ‘prostitution’ AND ‘HIV’ 4 articles relevant to the review- references within these articles were hand searched for additional relevant literature Cochrane library Prospero ‘sex worker’ OR ‘prostitute’ OR ‘prostitution’ AND ‘HIV’ AND ‘purchase of sex’ OR ‘client criminalisation’ OR ‘prohibition of purchase of sex’ No clinical trials or systematic reviews relating to sex workers, HIV rates and legal models on prostitution were registered with Cochrane of Prospero Jstor ‘sex worker’ OR ‘prostitute’ OR ‘prostitution’ AND ‘HIV’ 104 articles screened by title and abstract No relevant articles returned * Refining the search terms to include ‘client criminalisation/criminalization AND/OR prohibition of purchase of sex/ purchase of sex’ (except in the case of web of science) returned no results in the database searches therefore searches were kept broad in order to increase the likelihood of capturing relevant literature Returned articles The majority of articles returned during the database searches were not relevant, given that the bulk of research relating to sex workers and HIV were focused on sex trafficking; interventions in community setting to reduce HIV spread; men who have sex with men; or sex workers in Africa, Asia and South America where the HIV epidemic is significantly different to Western Europe. Studies included in the review focused on female sex workers working in high income/ developed countries (Canada, New Zealand, Europe, USA). The search did not return articles that focused specifically on client criminalisation and the impact on sex workers HIV rates however the included studies that examined legal models of prostitution (decriminalisation/illegalisation/client criminalisation) and the impact on sex workers, of which health and HIV rates made up some of the discussion.