[SWAF-Potluck] B.C. sex workers’ group confronts stigma around STDs

[Andrew Sorfleet]

Excellent analysis by Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight! (July 21, 2020)

 'B.C. sex workers’ group confronts stigma around STDs’ 
https://www.straight.com/living/bc-sex-workers-group-confronts-stigma-around-stds

“I feel this is a direct barrier to legal reforms that would make sex work a legal business—and a direct barrier to a professional association for sex workers,” Sorfleet maintained. 

“The Public Health Agency of Canada needs to endorse decriminalization of prostitution, because occupational health and safety is an important avenue to address STBBI prevention.”

According to Canadian Blood Services: you are "high risk of aquiring HIV/AIDS" and NOT eligible to donate blood or plasma, if you are:

"A person who has taken money or drugs for sex since 1977."
[ https://www.blood.ca/en/blood/am-i-eligible/abcs-eligibility-donating-blood under “HIV/AIDS]



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