St. James Infirmary provides compassionate and non-judgmental healthcare and social services for all sex workers while preventing occupational illnesses and injuries through a comprehensive continuum of services.

St. James Infirmary works with UNAIDS in Geneva on sex worker rights

Macklean from Uganda of the UNAIDS Global Working Group on Sex Work & HIV from Naomi Akers on Vimeo. In October 2009, the St. James Infirmary Executive Director was appointed to a Global Working Group on Sex Work and HIV Policy to UNAIDS. With its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, the ...

Featured Website: Sex Workers Project

For some really cool resources and publications check out this fabulous website. About the Sex Workers Project Using human rights and harm reduction approaches, the Sex Workers Project (SWP) protects and promotes the rights of individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or ...

Newly Published Article From the SWEAT Study

The St. James Infirmary is pleased to announce a newly published article by the SWEAT Study. The Sex Work Environmental Assessment Team (SWEAT Study) was a collaborative study between the University of California San Francisco and the St. James Infirmary.  This study sought to examine the working conditions and sexual ...

House of Garza Presents: Action!

ACTION! A Cocktail Party hosted by GARZA with special guests and local artists. Benefiting St. James Infirmary @ CAFE FLORE 2298 Market Street in the Castro. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14th, 9 to 11 pm Come show your support, learn about HIV research and the HIV vaccine trials and have some fun!

Strategic Planning Community Survey

If you have not had a chance to complete our survey, please take a few minutes and give us your opinions. This helps us with our strategic planning process. Thank you for taking your time to complete this survey. It takes less than 8 minutes...really!!! Click Here to take survey

Strategic Planning Community Survey

We are in the process of evaluating our services so we can make improvements.  This involves a brief survey that will help us in the process.  Thank you for taking your time to complete this survey. It takes less than 8 minutes...really!!! Click Here to take survey

St. James does RenegadeCast

In 2008, Naomi, Melissa, Robyn, and Sadie began working on RenegadeCast together. This episode is the first from that collaboration, recorded at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Robyn and Melissa talk about what it was like to meet sex worker activists from around the world, what we’ve learned ...

Will SF voters decriminalize prostitutes this November?

This November, San Francisco voters can decriminalize prostitution in our City by voting Yes on Proposition K. St. James Infirmary is against the criminalizing of sex workers for their profession. Regardless of how sex workers got to their current job, being criminalized is a social injustice with serious public health ...

Podcast Social Media Sex Worker Style

In 2006, St. James Infirmary published a study stating that our participants who are working in exclusively independent venues have higher rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections than those who are organized and working collectively (Cohan et al., 2006). Although increasing the number of people working collectively could decrease ...

June 29th 2010
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St. James Infirmary works with UNAIDS in Geneva on sex worker rights

Macklean from Uganda of the UNAIDS Global Working Group on Sex Work & HIV from Naomi Akers on Vimeo. In October 2009, the St. James Infirmary Executive Director was appointed to a Global Working Group on Sex Work and HIV Policy to UNAIDS. With its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, the ...
June 20th 2010
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St. James Infirmary NEEDS YOU!! For Pink Saturday

Come volunteer your time in one of the largest San Francisco events and raise money for your favorite Hooker Clinic. Our Clinic gets CA$H for every volunteer who works one of the fabulous gate shifts at Pink Saturday.  And you get a free Sister's Shirts. Pink Saturday in the Castro ...
May 25th 2010
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Sex Work & Feminism…

May 17th 2010
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2009 Annual Agency Report

If you are interested in reading about how the budget cuts have affected our services, what we did and who we served in 2009 or to read about our goals for 2010, download a copy of our 2009 Annual Agency Report.
April 17th 2010
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I am a sex worker

New York-based advocacy organization Sex Work Awareness recently implemented its first day-long Speak Up media training workshop, which took place at the Harm Reduction Coalition in mid-April. At the end of the day, the workshop participants made a public service announcement video.
April 2nd 2010
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Desiree Alliance Conference Scholarships

St. James Infirmary Scholarships for 4th Desiree Alliance Conference: Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics July 25-30, 2010 Las Vegas, NV What: This year St. James Infirmary will be giving out full and partial scholarships to attend the Desiree Alliance Conference in Las Vegas July 25-30.  Full scholarships include hotel, flight and ...

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