{"id":1624,"date":"2009-11-02T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/sub_menshealth_2009\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T02:31:18","slug":"sub_menshealth_2009","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/sub_menshealth_2009\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Submission on Mens Health&quot; 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current level of commonwealth, state and other funding addressing men\u2019s health issues does not<br \/>\nadequately serve male sex workers. Sex Worker services require funding in order to deliver services and peer<br \/>\neducation to male sex workers.<br \/>\nAustralian sex workers have a strong history of effective prevention programs combating Sexually Transmitted<br \/>\nInfections (STI) and HIV. This is mostly achieved through peer to peer skill-sharing. Primarily, resourcing for<br \/>\nservices targetting male sex workers comes from STI and HIV prevention funding. Whilst most services are<br \/>\nhighly effective at delivering these services, few primarily target men\u2019s health.<br \/>\nMale sex workers experience discrimination from health care professionals upon disclosure of occupation,<br \/>\nreducing quality of care available. Sex workers are often not acknowledged as part of Australian society,<br \/>\nthus negatively affecting their health and wellbeing and contributing to social exclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current level of commonwealth, state and other funding addressing men\u2019s health issues does not adequately serve male sex workers. Sex Worker services require funding in order to deliver services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":""},"tags":[],"pubtype":[20,3],"class_list":["post-1624","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","pubtype-national","pubtype-submission","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"pubtype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pubtype?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}