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Mobile Outreach and Education
HIPS provides safer sex materials, counseling, and support to street-based workers on weekends from 10pm to 5 am.

24 Hour Hotline
We provide counseling and referrals for sex workers and their families.

Peer Education and Outreach
We train former or current sex workers to educate their peers on safety and HIV.  Our Peer Educators extend HIPS programs into areas traditional health programs can’t reach.

Client Advocacy
HIPS provides basic services, such as helping to obtain an ID card or finding emergency shelter.

Professional Education
HIPS trains medical and social service providers to appropriately address the needs of sex workers and address barriers sex workers face in accessing services.


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)