Association between interrupted access to sex work community services during the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in sex workers' occupational conditions: findings from a community-based cohort study in Vancouver, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Globally, criminalisation has shaped sex workers' structural exclusion from occupational protections, and this exclusion has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. While community organisations aim to bridge this gap through providing health and safety resources for sex workers, many were forced to scale back services when Canadian provinces declared a state of emergency at the pandemic onset. As little empirical research has examined the impacts of sex work community services interruptions amid COVID-19, our objectives were to (1) examine the correlates of interrupted access to community services and (2) model the independent association between interrupted access to community services and changes in working conditions (ie, self-reported increases in workplace v

SUBMITTER: McBride B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature