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Commercial Sex Information Service (CSIS)
CSIS is a clearinghouse of information about laws, sexual health, commerce and culture as these topics relate to sex work.

Prostitutes' Education Network
The Prostitutes' Education Network is an information service about legislative and cultural issues as they effect prostitutes and other sex workers.

Sex Worker's International Media Watch
SWIMW is an organization created for the purpose of observing and responding to the media whenever sex workers' concerns are represented therein.

UNAIDS Care and Prevention
The global mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Harm Reduction Coalition
The Harm reduction Coalition embraces a set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of a behavior, incorporating a spectrum of strategies from safety, to managed risk to abstinence. Harm reduction strategies meet individuals "where they're at," addressing conditions of the behavior along with the behavior itself.



HIPS mission is to assist female, male, and transgendered individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. Using a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact that HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in sex work.

Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive
 P.O. Box 21394
 Washington, DC 20009
 phone: 202-232-8150 fax: 202.232.8304
 HOTLINE: 1-800-676-HIPS
www.hips.org
email: (HIPS-at-HIPS-dot-org)