Symposium 3: Cross Stream Session - Sex Work: Identifying Current Issues and Gaps and Future Directions
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| 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
Ms Catherine Healy
Senior Counsellor Case Manager
Relationships Australia South Australia
Sex Work: Lessons from New Zealand
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMBiography
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
IUSTI2024 Congress President
William (Chi Wai) Wong
The University of Hong Kong
Sex Work: Lessons from Hong Kong and China
12:30 PM - 12:45 PMBiography
X Suzanne Werder
Nurse Practitioner
New Zealand Sexual Health Society - NZSHS
William (Chi Wai) Wong
The University of Hong Kong
Panel Discussion
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Professor Eric Chow
Professor
IUSTI2024 Congress President
Panel Discussion
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Ms Catherine Healy
Senior Counsellor Case Manager
Relationships Australia South Australia
Panel Discussion
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
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.
X Suzanne Werder
Nurse Practitioner
New Zealand Sexual Health Society - NZSHS
Panel Discussion
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Chair
Basil Donovan
Head, Sexual Health Program
Kirby Institute, Unsw Sydney
Annah Pickering
Regional Coordinator Auckland Branch
New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective
