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.

Resources

SJI Occupational Health & Safety Manual 2nd Edition
This handbook is a virtual one-stop resource guide, with a list of over 300 social service and government agencies in the Bay Area and a comprehensive list of sex worker organization across the globe. Come back in May, 2010 for our 3rd Edition of this wonderfully updated manual.

AIM (Adult Industry Medical) Healthcare Foundation
HIV/STI screening for adult video performers.  Based in Los Angeles.  Online testing also available for the general community

Annie Sprinkle
Former board member of St. James Infirmary.  A true sex work hero.

BAYSWAN
Home of the Prostitutes’ Education Network and St. James Infirmary advisory board member Carol Leigh.

COYOTE (Call Off Your Old, Tired Ethics)
One of the original US-based sex worker rights organizations, founded in 1970 by St. James Infirmary’s founder Margo St. James.

Center for Sex and Culture
Non-judgmental, sex positive sexuality education and community center based in San Francisco, co-founded by Dr. Carol Queen and Dr. Robert Lawrence.

Exotic Dancers’ Alliance
Addressing the lack of civil, human and labor rights on behalf of exotic dancers and other sex industry workers.  Co-founded by Johanna Breyer, MSW & Dawn Passar, MFA, also co-founders of St. James Infirmary.

Desiree Alliance
A diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network of organizations, communities and individuals across the US working in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy and health services for sex workers.

Differnet Avenues
Working for the health, rights and safety of youth and young adults affected by violence, HIV and discrimination. Peer leadership of people who are engaging in sexual exchange is prioritized.

HIPS
Assisting female, male, and transgender individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives.

ISWFACE
International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education

Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
An international organisation for promoting sex workers’ health and human rights, with member organizations in more than 40 countries.  Publisher of Research for Sex Work.

San Francisco City Clinic
Directed by Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, friend of St. James Infirmary.

San Francisco Sex Information
Provides free, confidential, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex and reproductive health, as well trains community sex educators.

San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution
Read the Final Report Submitted to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, California, March 1996.

Scarlet Alliance
Australian Sex Workers Association.

Scarlet Men
Australian Male Sex Workers.

Sexpert of Finland
Lady Johan’s Safe Sex Guide

$pread magazine
A national magazine by and for sex workers.

SWEAT
Sex workers’ organization situated in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sex Workers’ Outreach Project
A national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of sex workers and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.

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 ...
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.

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