Health

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PrEP Advocate Damon Jacobs: Vaping Can Be Harm Reduction

What comes to mind when you hear the term “harm reduction”? Many people in public health or in the community may think of needle exchanges or safer sex practices. PrEP can be a form of harm reduction, since it can allow you to enjoy the sex you want to have while at the same time reducing the harms that can come from condomless sex. Damon Jacobs, LMFT Because I’m an advocate for the health of people in the LGBTQ community, I’m also concerned by harm coming from something else in our community: tobacco. Did you know that LGBTQ people smoke […]

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Ending Hepatitis C Means Including People Who Inject Drugs

With affordable, highly-effective hepatitis C (HCV) direct acting antiretroviral medications now available, innovative programs in San Francisco are reaching people who inject drugs with hepatitis C cure support and treatment. Clinicians and advocates who recognize the benefit of treating everyone with hepatitis C—regardless of their substance use—are advocating for a non-judgmental approach to this deadly infection. Pierre-Cédric Crouch, PhD, ANP-BC “We recently expanded our hepatitis C treatment program to the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center, which primarily serve people who are homeless or marginally housed, and who use substances including injection drugs,” said Pierre-Cedric Crouch, PhD, ANP-BC, nursing director of […]

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LGBTQIO Folks Are 8 Times More Likely to be Victims of Revenge Porn

LGBT people are eight times more likely to be targeted by revenge porn, a study has revealed. One in 25 Americans have either been threatened with or made the victim of revenge porn, but this includes just two percent of straight people. On the other hand, a huge 17 percent of LGBT people have been targeted with threats or actual posts of pornographic images or videos of them which they did not consent to being online. Amanda Lenhart, one of the report’s authors, said that the study – conducted by the Data & Society Research Institute and the Centre for […]

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New Chemsex Research Shows Surprising Trend

In the midst of a national opioid crisis, are gay men partying cleaner? While this might seem like the conclusion of a new study by two Manchester Metropolitan University criminology employees, Drs. Rob Ralphs and Paul Gray, the actual data points to a less optimistic outcome. Gray and Ralphs’ study, taking place over a period of six months, involved interviews with over 50 drug users and 30 staff members at Mancunian clinics and treatment centers. What its findings showed was an overwhelming preference among gay males for trendier chemsex drugs and synthetic cannabinoids, such as the drug “spice,” resulting in […]

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Trump Administration Moves to Censor Truth and Science

The Trump administration has banned multiple divisions within the Department of Health and Human Services including the Centers for Disease Control from using certain words or phrases in official documents being drafted for next year’s budget. The banned words are “Vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” Rush Holt, chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said: “Among the words forbidden to be used in CDC budget documents are ‘evidence-based’ and ‘science-based.’ I suppose one must not think those things either. Here’s a word that’s still allowed: ridiculous.” “To pretend and insist that transgender people […]

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The Surprising Pros and Cons of Medicare

https://www.healthmarkets.com/resources/medicare/surprising-pros-cons-medicare/ Medicare, though not at the forefront of the healthcare debate like the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid are, is still a big concern in some circles. What is the true status of Medicare? Is it good, bad, or somewhere in between? What would happen if Medicare was eliminated? In this post, we’re going to discuss some pros and cons of Medicare. Pros of Medicare Medicare Provides Coverage to Those Who Wouldn’t Have Coverage In many senses, Medicare does “work.” Thanks to the program, millions of aging adults have been able to receive coverage when they otherwise wouldn’t be able […]

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Clinical Laboratories Key to Breaking Down the Health Care Barriers Faced by Trans Patients

Clinical laboratories could significantly improve healthcare for the transgender community by using both sex and gender identity to make decisions about clinical testing, and by determining normal lab values for healthy transgender patients. A review published today in AACC’s Clinical Chemistry journal emphasizes these as critical steps on the road to eliminating the many hurdles that transgender individuals face when seeking quality healthcare. Surveys show that 25%-30% of transgender people delay or avoid healthcare due to fear of discrimination, 15%-20% have been refused care by medical professionals, and 25%-30% have experienced harassment or violence in a healthcare setting. In addition to […]

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LGBTQ College Students Face Barriers to Campus Mental Health Services, Study Finds

College students who belong to sexual minority groups are more likely to seek help for mental health problems than their straight peers, but they still face many barriers to using on-campus mental health services, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers found that students who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or questioning were more likely to use off-campus mental health services than their heterosexual peers and were more likely to report being deterred by barriers such as concerns over confidentiality and uncertainty over eligibility for on-campus services. The findings are from one of the largest surveys ever […]

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Is Gender Affirmative Treatment Effective for Coexisting Gender Dysphoria and Psychosis?

A new study demonstrates that gender dysphoria in individuals with coexisting psychotic disorders can be adequately diagnosed and safely treated with gender affirming psychological, endocrine, and surgical therapies. The study is published in LGBT Health, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the LGBT Health Web site until May 3, 2017. In this novel and important report, Julia Meijer, MD, PhD, Guus Eeckhout, MD, Roy van Vlerken, MD, and Annelou de Vries, MD, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, describe a small series of case studies involving transgender men and […]

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Study: LGBTQ+ Individuals at High Risk to be Victims of Violence

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are at high risk for being victims of physical and sexual assault, harassment, bullying, and hate crimes, according to a new study by RTI International. In a newly published report, funded by RTI, RTI researchers analyzed 20 years’ worth of published studies on violence and the LGBTQ+ community, which included 102 peer-reviewed papers as well as a few unpublished analyses and non-peer-reviewed papers. With The Henne Group, RTI also carried out a series of focus-group discussions with LGBTQ+ communities in San Francisco; New York City; Durham, North Carolina; and rural Wyoming. “Our research indicates […]

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