Advancing Partners & Communities's Aysa Saleh-Ramirez considers the profound psychosocial barriers faced by transgender people in seeking and receiving HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and other basic health services.
In the Dominican Republic (DR), transgender (trans) persons experience stigma and discrimination in many different ways and are denied the same opportunities as other Dominicans. In recent years, more efforts have been directed at improving the quality of life for the trans community. However, these initiatives focus mainly on HIV prevention and treatment, ignoring the multiple socioeconomic and health needs of these marginalized individuals.
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The Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) annual conference will be held June 17-19, 2016, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Consider sharing your work and stories of the intersection of faith, health and development in a panel session at the conference. CCIH is also offering a general conference scholarship and, new this year, the Luann and Ray Martin Maternal and Child Health Scholarship for students interested in careers in MCH.
The Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit from CapacityPlus introduces a process to measure the productivity of facility-based health workers, understand causes of productivity problems, and identify interventions to address them.
Join Advancing Partners & Communities at this year's American Public Health Association Annual Meeting from November 4 - November 8, 2017.