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.

Nothing About Us Without Us: The Shared Goals of the Harm Reduction and Sex Worker Rights Movements

The above video and supplementary documents are designed to spark discussion and create inspiration for looking at the ways that peer-led groups providing support and services to sex workers in their communities can collaborate with harm reduction agencies. The materials were developed by a group of ...

Sex Work & Feminism…

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.

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 ...

Taking the Pledge

Taking the Pledge is a 13-minute film featuring sex workers from Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Thailand and more! They describe the problems created by the 'anti-prostitution pledge' required to receive USAID and PEPFAR funds. In English, Khmer, Thai, French, Portuguese and Bengali, with English subtitles. Watch in full-screen mode to read ...

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 ...

Sex workers do Harm Reduction, Part II

What is the harm in sex work? Sex workers and allies explain that criminalization and wrong-headed policy approaches are the problem. Sex work is positive, it's the policy framework that causes harm. What is "harm reduction" for sex workers then? Health services, needle exchange, distribution of condoms... along with fighting ...

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 ...

August 29th 2010
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Eagle Beer Bust Benefits St. James Infirmary: Double Your Pleasure, Double Our Funds!

We are super excited to announce that this coming Sunday September 5th, (Labor Day Weekend!!), the Eagle Tavern will be hosting the St. James Infirmary for a wet and wild Beer Bust.  This means you buy a cup for $10 and get to drink as much beer ...
August 27th 2010
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Double Your Pleasure Double Our Funds! Beer Bust & Raffle…

We have a really fun events coming up SATURDAY AUGUST 28. If you are in SF, PLEASE come to this event and bring your friends!!! What's really great, is that not only are the beer busts a LOT of fun, 
but they ALL fall under St. James Infirmary's "MATCHING YOUR ...
August 19th 2010
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Nothing About Us Without Us: The Shared Goals of the Harm Reduction and Sex Worker Rights Movements

The above video and supplementary documents are designed to spark discussion and create inspiration for looking at the ways that peer-led groups providing support and services to sex workers in their communities can collaborate with harm reduction agencies. The materials were developed by a group of ...
August 2nd 2010
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Matching Your Devotion

On Monday, August 2nd, 2010, the St. James Infirmary is kicking off our Matching Your Devotion campaign and we want you to be a part of it!   We have received an extremely generous $10,000 matching grant; we have 2 months to match it and raise a whole lot more. Since ...
July 16th 2010
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St. James Infirmary publishes the 3rd Edition of our Sex Worker Occupational Health & Safety Handbook

The St. James Infirmary "Occupational Health and Safety Handbook, 3rd edition" is hot off the presses and better than ever! The first half of the book is devoted to harm reduction, health, safety and legal rights, and the second half has information for 720 local, national ...
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 ...

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