Aims and Objectives

• To prevent the spread and transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV and other blood borne viruses to sex workers and their commercial and private partners; and further to promote and work towards general and occupational health and safety conditions through education, advocacy and support.
• To lobby for legal and administrative frameworks which do not discriminate against sex workers and former sex workers.
• To strive to eradicate sex worker stereotypes in the popular consciousness and to replace these myths with the true experiences of sex workers.
• To provide support and referral services for workers in the sex industry, their commercial and private partners.
• To address the special needs of sex industry workers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds impede their access to sex worker related services.
• To identify and minimise the obstacles faced by sex workers who wish to participate in further education and training, through support and referral.
• To support, in ways deemed appropriate by the Management Committee, a national organisation with similar objectives, and SQWISI’s role within it and to promote solidarity amongst all workers in the sex industry.