Sex workers must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 response

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1H 9SH, UK. Electronic address: lucy.platt@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1H 9SH, UK.
³ International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, Roehampton, UK.
⁵ Transform Drug Policy Foundation, Bristol, UK.
⁶ School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Lucy Platt et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 4;396(10243):9-11.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31033-3. Epub 2020 May 15.

¹ Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1H 9SH, UK. Electronic address: lucy.platt@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1H 9SH, UK.
³ International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Social Sciences, University of Roehampton, Roehampton, UK.
⁵ Transform Drug Policy Foundation, Bristol, UK.
⁶ School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

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