TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 363 LP - 363 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050179 VL - 87 IS - 5 AU - Jackie A Cassell Y1 - 2011/08/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/87/5/363.abstract N2 - This month we continue a Eastern European theme,1–4 with a report by Platt et al5 on STI and violence among indoor sex workers. Migrant sex work generates much heat and less light in the press, and we are delighted to publish this high quality, along with an editorial by Professor Helen Ward,6 former Editor and an eminent authority in this field. The regulation of sex work, through health or policing regulations, goes back to the roots of our clinical and academic disciplines, and perverse consequences endlessly emerge from well-meaning initiatives. Only last year we published an Australian study which demonstrated the waste of resources—and displacement of needy patients—resulting from regulations requiring frequent checkups for sex workers.7 The challenges will continue to evolve and vary across the globe, and it is … ER -