Health care

1. Health care professionals like physicians, nurses and physician assistants should learn to recognize signs of human trafficking. The US Department of Health and Human Services has developed resources to educate health care workers about identifying victims of human trafficking in the clinics. With some common sense and awareness of the existence of human traffcking in North America, health care professionals play a key role in identifying and helping victims of human trafficking. See http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/campaign_kits/index.html#health for the resources from the US government.
2. Physicians can volunteer in free clinics, as they may encounter anti-human trafficking issues there. One example is the Venice Family Clinic in L.A. (http://www.venicefamilyclinic.org/#).
3. You can join Physicians for Human Rights (http://physiciansforhumanrights.org) to participate in advocacy, regardless of whether you are a health care professional. Licensed physicians, mental health professionals and dentists can volunteer to evaluate asylum seekers in the US.
4. Countries like Vietnam do not have complete vaccination programs for diseases like hepatitis B that can be sexually transmitted, which leaves unvaccinated sex workers at higher risk for the disease. Health care workers can participate in hepatitis B vaccination programs, such as the Hue Vaccination Drive (http://endexploitation.org/vaccination.html) by Action to End Exploitation and Aid to Children Without Parents.
   
5. Medical specialties that have more direct relevance to anti-human trafficking include emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and forensic medicine.