Ruth Morgan Thomas has been involved in the sex industry for more than 30 years, 8 years as a sex worker, 2 ½ years as an academic researcher at Edinburgh University looking at HIV related risks in the sex industry, and 20 plus years as a sex workers’ rights advocate within a UK, European and global context. She is the Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), and currently co-chairs the UNAIDS Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Work on behalf of the NSWP.
We will loudly advocate for the recognition of sex work as work, we will oppose the criminalization of sex work, and support the freedom of sex workers to self-organization and self-determination. In the absence of all these freedoms, HIV prevention policies, programs and efforts will remain ineffective.
