Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT)
The SWIT offers practical guidance on effective HIV and STI programming for sex workers. It provides evidence for the necessity of decriminalization of sex work, the involvement of sex workers in developing policy, and the empowerment and self-determination of sex work communities as a fundamental part of the fight against HIV. This resource is based on the WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and NSWP.
The full name of the SWIT is Implementing Comprehensive HIV/STI Programmes with Sex Workers: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions. It was produced in collaboration with sex worker-led organizations by WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, NSWP, The World Bank, and UNDP.
Peer Reviewed Journals
User-Centered Design for Data Collection Tool
Ditmore, MH & Florez-Arango JF. A multiple methods approach in user-centered design for designing and evaluating a prototype of a data collection tool to submit information about incidents of violence against sex workers. JMIR Human Factors https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/53557/accepted
Sex Workers and Online Platform Power
Majic, S & Ditmore, MH & Li J. 2024. 440 Sex Workers Cannot Be Wrong: Engaging and Negotiating Online Platform Power. Social Sciences 13(7), 337; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13070337
The Give and Take of Community Based Research
Ditmore, MH & Majic, S. The Give and Take of Community Based Research. Qualitative Research special issue Beyond 'Vulnerable Populations', in press.
Sex workers, online platforms, and de-platforming
Majic, S & Ditmore, MH. Sex workers, online platforms, and de-platforming: A case of policy feedback? New Political Science, in submission.
Trilingual data collection tool
Ditmore, MH, ElKarouaoui A & Florez-Arango JF. A multiple methods approach in user-centered design for designing and evaluating a prototype of a trilingual data collection tool to submit information about incidents of violence against sex workers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). JMIR Human Factors (submitted). doi:10.2196/65210 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/65210
Improving Ethical and Participatory Practice
Allman, D, Ditmore, MH & Kaplan K. 2014. Improving Ethical and Participatory Practice for Marginalized Populations in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials: Lessons from Thailand. PLoS-One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100058 Link to article
Caught between the Tiger and the Crocodile
Ditmore, MH. 2014. "Caught between the Tiger and the Crocodile": Sex Workers' Experiences of Structural and Physical Violence. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 15(1):22-31 doi 0.1080/15240657.2014.877726
Workshops for Internet-based male escorts
Grov C, Rodriguez-Diaz C, Ditmore MH, Restar A & Parsons JT. 2014. What kinds of workshops do Internet-based male escorts want? Implications for prevention and health promotion. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 11(1) doi 10.1007/s13178-014-0151-z
The Effects of Funding Restrictions on HIV Programming for Sex Workers
Ditmore MH, Allman D. The Effects of Funding Restrictions on HIV Programming for Sex Workers. Journal of the International AIDS Society 16: 17354 Link to article
Who Is Helsinki?
Ditmore MH, Allman D. "Who Is Helsinki?": Sex workers recommend better communication in clinical trials. Health Education Review Link to article. Highlighted in UNAIDS' "HIV this Week" bulletin.
Accountability and the Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking
Ditmore MH, Thukral J. Accountability and the Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking. Anti-Trafficking Review 1. Link to article
How Ethical Is Your Clinical Trial?
Miller, L., Folayan, M., Allman, D., Nkala, B., Mutengu, L.K., RuizMingote, L., Calazans, G., Mburu, R., Ntombela, F. & Ditmore, MH. How Ethical Is Your Clinical Trial? International Journal of Clinical Practice. 2010 August; 64(9): 1179–1182. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2010.02421.x.
Unsafe Condoms
Ditmore MH, Choun Neth. "Unsafe Condoms." Reproductive Health Matters 28 (November 2006): 171-173.
Unethical clinical trials in Thailand
Loff B, Jenkins C, Ditmore MH, Overs C and Barbero R. "Unethical clinical trials in Thailand: a community response." The Lancet 6 May 2005; 365: 1618-1619.
Crime, sex, money and migration
Ditmore MH & Wijers M (2003). "Crime, sex, money and migration: The negotiations on the United Nations Protocol on Trafficking in Persons." Nemesis 4 (Utrecht, Netherlands).
Sex work and sex trafficking
Ditmore MH & Saunders P. "Sex work and sex trafficking," Sexual Health Exchange number 1, 1998.
Books
Unbroken Chains: The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the America Economy
Ditmore MH. (2023). Boston: Beacon Press. (Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction)
Prostitution and Sex Work
Ditmore MH. (2011) in the series Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio/Greenwood Press.)
Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy
Ditmore MH. Editor (with A. Willman and A. Levy). (2010). London: Zed Books.
Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution
Ditmore MH. Editor (2006). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Book Chapters
The High Price of Cheap Labor
Ditmore MH. In Working It, Matilda Brown ed. (PM Press, 2023)
Sex, Violence and the Border: Trafficking for Sex Work from Mexico to the United States
Maternick A & Ditmore MH. In Global Human Trafficking, Molly Dragiewicz ed. (Routledge, 2014.)
Social Network Analysis
Ditmore MH. CUNY Women (Palgrave, 2014).
Sex Work and Development
Ditmore MH. (2008). In Development with a Body: Making Connections between Sexuality, Human Rights and Development. Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Correa and Susie Jolly, editors. London: Zed Books.
Sex Workers are Organizing in Kolkata
Ditmore MH. (2007) In The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social. Clough, Patricia with Jean Halley, editors. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press.
Trafficking in Lives: How Ideology Shapes Policy
Ditmore MH. (2005). In Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered. Kamala Kempadoo, Bandana Pattanaik and Jyothi Sanghera, editors. Boulder, CO: Paradigm.
Reaching Out to Sex Workers
Ditmore MH. (2002). "Reaching Out to Sex Workers." Reaching the Hardly Reached. Program for Appropriate Technology and Health. Link to PDF
Reports
Safety First: Responding to violence against sex workers in 4 countries in Asia
Rahman H, Ditmore MH, Win KT, Sultana N, Khin HS, Dhakal B, & Liana. (2019). Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers.
When Sex Work and Drug Use Overlap: Considerations for Advocacy and Practice
Ditmore MH. (2013). London: Harm Reduction International. Link to PDF
Population Size Estimation of Key Populations
Ditmore MH, Kamara W, James N, Mansaray K, Kamara V, Konteh J et al. (2013, August). Freetown, Sierra Leone: UNAIDS & National AIDS Secretariat. Link to PDF
The Road North: The Role of Gender, Poverty and Violence in Trafficking from Mexico to the US
Ditmore MH. Anna Maternick and Katharine Zapert. (2012). New York: Sex Workers Project. Link to report
Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for Sex Workers: Report on the State of the Art
Ditmore MH. (2009). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Aids Fonds Netherlands. Link to PDF
Intersections: Gender, HIV and Infrastructure Operations
Paxton S & Ditmore MH. (2009). Manila, the Philippines: Asian Development Bank.
The Use of Raids to Fight Trafficking in Persons
Ditmore MH. (2009). New York: Urban Justice Center. www.sexworkersproject.org/reports
Structural Violence Against Sex Workers in Cambodia
Ditmore MH. (2006). Phnom Penh: Women's Network for Unity.
Behind Closed Doors
Thukral J, Ditmore MH & Murphy A. (2005). New York: Urban Justice Center. www.sexworkersproject.org/reports
Revolving Door
Thukral J & Ditmore MH. (2003). New York: Urban Justice Center. www.sexworkersproject.org/reports