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Speaker: Hilary
Kinnell
Affiliation: UK
Network of Sex Work Projects
Presentation Title:
Is Violence towards Sex Workers an essential part of Prostitution Control
Policy?
Biography
Since 1998 Hilary Kinnell has co-ordinated the UK
network of agencies offering sexual health and other services to sex workers
in the UK. Until March 2002, this role was under the aegis of EUROPAP,
the European Network for HIV/STD Prevention in Prostitution. Since March
2002 the UK network has constituted itself as a voluntary association,
the UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP). She is currently continuing
to act as Network Co-ordinator, in a voluntary capacity.
After working in community development, community relations, youth work, and in GU departments as a health adviser, she joined the Public Health Department in Birmingham in 1987, initially in a generic HIV prevention role.
Hilary Kinnell initiated the Safe Project in Birmingham in 1987 and managed the project and its outreach team until 1996. Safe was one of the first sexual health and HIV prevention outreach projects for sex workers in the UK. While she was manager of Safe the outreach team made contact with over 4000 sex workers, and over 500 injecting drug users. She also initiated and supervised several major pieces of research into commercial sex and injecting drug use in Birmingham and surrounding areas.
Hilary Kinnell is a freelance consultant on issues relating to the commercial sex industry (prostitution), sexual health, HIV prevention, drugs and the management of outreach work, and have published articles relating to both health and safety in the sex industry.
