Providing health advice for people working in prostitution

If you intend to work as a prostitute, you can seek health advice.

You must register in order to work as a prostitute. If you wish to register as a prostitute, you are obliged to seek advice in advance.

If you are already working as a prostitute, you must seek regular advice.

Health advice is primarily concerned with topics such as

• Protection against diseases,
• pregnancy and contraception
• Risks of alcohol and drug abuse.
• Protection from exploitation and forced prostitution
• Protection of one's own physical and mental health

The conversation is confidential. This means that no information will be passed on. If you do not speak German well, an interpreter or language mediator can be present or can be called to translate for you. Even then, the conversation will remain confidential.

Registration is linked to a personal information and consultation meeting.

In addition to the registration certificate and the certificate of health consultation with the name, it is also possible to issue a so-called alias registration certificate or alias certificate of health consultation. The real name is replaced by a fictitious name. The alias name can be chosen freely and does not have to indicate gender.

• The alias name of the registration certificate must be identical to the alias name of the health advice certificate.
• The alias name does not have to be identical to the working name.

Prostitutes can use the alias certificate to provide information about their proper registration as a prostitute without giving up their anonymity.

Alias certificates (alias registration certificate and health consultation certificate) can be used by prostitutes vis-à-vis operators. The real name does not have to be given. This allows prostitutes to decide whether they want to give their real name to the operator or persons acting on their behalf. Agreements with operators of a prostitution business can also be concluded under the alias name that results from the valid alias registration certificate.

The alias certificate also serves as proof during inspections by the registration and licensing authority (in Bremen this is the trade authority), but the registration and alias certificate is not a substitute for an identity card or passport.

Requirements

You are of legal age.