Queensland sex worker Eva says doctors can be ‘patronising and really offensive’, making it difficult to comply with laws that mandate she and her colleagues have regular health tests.
When Eva* sat in her GP’s office, the last thing she expected to feel was unsafe and uncomfortable.“Stigma and discrimination is a major barrier to healthcare for sex workers.”
They argued that mandatory testing failed to acknowledge that many sex workers already practised safe sex, that it could lead to insensitive or inhumane treatment of individuals, and could result in poor-quality medical examinations. “Sex workers in Australia have lower rates of STIs than the general population, higher rates of condom use and higher rates of voluntary testing for STIs and blood-borne viruses ... this has been studied extensively, especially by the
“Instead, resources are spent on a section of the population who already have better sexual health and knowledge than the general population.”
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