An Evaluation of Sex Workers Health Access (AESHA)
AESHA is a community-based research project that includes a quantitative cohort and qualitative/ethnographic arm. As part of the quantitative arm, AESHA operates a community-based prospective cohort that involves semi-annual questionnaires and sexual health research visits with our community-based staff. The qualitative arm is focused on documenting the lived-experiences of sex workers of all genders, and third parties who provide services for sex workers, like receptionists, venue managers, owners and security personnel.
Study Aims
- To evaluate the impacts of changes in system-level and community-based interventions and policies on sex workers’ sexual and physical health, overdose risk, and occupational health outcomes
- To draw on the lived experience of sex workers and third party actors (e.g. manages, receptionists, drivers) to delineate the pathways through which law reform and renewed policy frameworks (e.g. federal law, municipal licensing and zoning, local policing, provincial workplace and occupational safety standards) can best support sex workers’ health and rights
Dates
- 2015 – 2025
Location
- Vancouver, Canada
Principal Investigators
Dr. Shira Goldenberg
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
San Diego State University
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia
[email protected]
Dr. Andrea Krüsi
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia
[email protected]
Funding
- NIDA, R01DA028648