Sex workers as peer health advocates: community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social marginalization and criminalization create health and safety risks for sex workers and reduce their access to health promotion and prevention services compared to the general population. Community empowerment-based interventions that prioritize the engagement of sex workers show promising results. Peer-to-peer interventions, wherein sex workers act as educators of their colleagues, managers, clients and romantic partners, foster community mobilization and critical consciousness among sex workers and equip them to exercise agency in their work and personal lives.

Methods

A pilot peer health education program was developed and implemented, with and for sex workers in one urban centre in Canada. To explore how the training program contributed to community empo

SUBMITTER: Benoit C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577770 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature