SWAN, an organization that supports immigrant and migrant women who do indoor sex work, is in the process of setting up a mobile clinic that could offer testing for sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections to sex workers in the Lower Mainland. Michelle Gamage reports. Michelle reports on health for The Tyee. Published Jan. 28, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/28/STI-Testing-Van-Lower-Mainland/

An STI Testing Van Is Heading to the Lower Mainland

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