Comments on: Budget 2014 and other state changes hurt sex workers /opinion/soapbox-opinion/budget-2014-and-other-state-changes-hurt-sex-workers/123723 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Randy /opinion/soapbox-opinion/budget-2014-and-other-state-changes-hurt-sex-workers/123723#comment-165893 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 00:51:50 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=123723#comment-165893 Free & confidential STI testing is ESSENTIAL for us as sex workers. This is a service that CANNOT be compromised! We all need to remember this, and fight for it to be reinstated in Queensland, and oppose copayments for sex workers for STI testing. As a sex worker I am feeling really upset about this.

]]> By: Andy A /opinion/soapbox-opinion/budget-2014-and-other-state-changes-hurt-sex-workers/123723#comment-165655 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 06:47:12 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=123723#comment-165655 For me anonymous access to sex worker services is essential. Currently I can access both sexual health testing and support and information from SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project) this way.
Not all sex workers can afford to pay for regular STI tests. Many of my sex working friends are uni students who are paying huge fees to attend university and free testing is essential to them.

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