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Our mission

SWOP promotes the health, safety and well-being of sex industry workers in a way that enables and affirms their occupational and human rights, and is the leading sex worker health agency in NSW.

Our vision

  • Elimination of HIV and other sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in the NSW sex industry.
  • A strong, healthy, resilient and empowered sex industry workforce in NSW.
  • Elimination of discrimination experienced by those involved in the sex industry.
  • A society that respects the link between health and social justice.

We believe in

  • inclusiveness, respect and self-determination
  • courage, empathy, diversity and equality
  • peer education and support
  • social justice
  • partnership
  • workplace safety
  • harm minimisation
  • sex work as a valid occupational choice
  • portraying sex in a positive way.