Its aim is to maintain low rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), blood borne viruses (BBVs) and HIV among sex workers and their clients in South Australia.
In 1987, PASA received a grant from the SA Health Commission to conduct a three-month HIV/AIDS education project with sex workers called the "Travelling Parlour Show".
[5] Scarlet Alliance supported a group of volunteer sex workers in South Australia to keep limited services going while new arrangements were negotiated with the funding bodies.
The SA health department agreed to fund Scarlet Alliance to complete ACSA's original contract.
[7] In 2017, an improved bill which had support of sex workers, the working women's centre and unions was introduced into the upper house.