Program

Symposium 3: Cross Stream Session - Sex Work: Identifying Current Issues and Gaps and Future Directions

Tracks

Thursday, November 1, 2018

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Princes Ballroom A

Details

The aim of this session is to understand sex work and the burden of HIV/STI in four different countries: New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong and China. This section will discuss the following issues: how sex work is governed in different countries; the current HIV/STI epidemic among sex workers; the current issues and gaps; and future direction. The panel discussion will: Discuss any potential interventions for female sex workers. What works and what doesn’t? ; Any potential strategy targeting migrant SW? ; Online sex work is quite common in the last few year and they usually provide higher risk services. How could we target this group

Speaker

Dame Catherine Healy

National Co-ordinator

Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective

Sex Work: Lessons from New Zealand

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Audio Recording

Speaker Presentation

Biography

Dame Catherine Healy is a founding member of NZPC and a long-time advocate for sex worker rights. She was a co-editor of Taking the Crime Out of Sex Work and frequently provides information and advice affecting sex work law and policy to official bodies.

Professor Eric Chow

Professor

Monash University

Sex Work: Lessons from Australia

12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

Audio Recording

Speaker Presentation

Biography

William (Chi Wai) Wong

The University of Hong Kong

Sex Work: Lessons from Hong Kong and China

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

Biography

Suzanne Werder

Nurse Practitioner

New Zealand Sexual Health Society - NZSHS

Migrant Sex Work in Aotearoa New Zealand

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Abstract

Audio Recording

Regional Coordinator Auckland Branch

New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective