SWOP NSW has, for over 35 years, delivered peer-led services to sex industry workplaces (street, home, brothels, strip clubs, massage parlours) and via phone, email, and online, so NSW sex workers get the same access to health, safety, human rights, and workplace protections as other Australian workers; we also partner with community, researchers, clinicians, government & NGOs to sustain low STI rates and HIV.
The Sex Workers Outreach Project New South Wales (SWOP NSW), a member of Scarlet Alliance, has delivered peer-led services to the sex industry in NSW for over 35 years to provide NSW sex workers with the same access to health, safety, human rights, and workplace protections as all other Australian workers.
We provide direct support and peer education to sex workers across the state by outreaching regularly to a broad range of sex industry workplaces (including street based, home based, brothels, strip clubs, and massage parlours), as well as providing services at our office and via phone, email and a variety of online platforms.
We collaborate with community members, researchers and clinicians, and government and non-government organisations. Our primary funding is from the Ministry of Health, to ensure that NSW sex workers receive the services and support vital to sustaining low rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and virtual elimination of HIV.
