Health, HIV & Addiction Topics in the LGBTQ+ Community

During a panel at the 2023 Association of Health Care Journalists conference in St. Louis last month about reporting on LGBTQ+ stories, panelists offered several tips and resources. Here's a summary.

Penn Medicine's hospitals have been honored by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, for its dedication and commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Brad Nations, chief growth officer at FOLX Health, explains how employers can expand the LGBTQ community's access to quality healthcare.

People looking for help in reducing their alcohol and other substance use often turn to 12-step programs. But while research shows that LGBTQ individuals are more likely to struggle with substance use issues than their peers, they also often face barriers to engaging in traditional treatment programs.

LGBTQ virtual care platform Folx Health recently closed a $30 million Series B financing round, bringing the startup's total funding to date to roughly $60 million. The company will use the money to expand its services, including the addition of clinician-led support groups. The first of these support groups will focus on queer fertility and family planning.

Monkeypox infected more than 26,000 Americans. Five men share what the virus has done to their bodies, their families and their finances.

This year’s global monkeypox outbreak has dredged up harsh recollections of the early days of the HIV epidemic, especially for the LGBTQ health activists who lived through that ugly period and its prejudices. Sean Cahill, the director of health policy research for the Fenway Institute, an organization aimed at creating healthier lives for people in…

This is what disparities look like in accessing testing, vaccines and treatment for monkeypox, the latest viral threat hanging over gay life.

Experts say that a leading cause of death often goes overlooked.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi North Central Bronx and its CEO, Christopher Mastromano, honored over 100 employees on May 12, who completed their certifications in LGBTQ health equity, a 7-hour, intensive training program aimed at increasing core competencies in providing LGBTQ health services.

The Harvard Women’s Cabinet, a student group dedicated to addressing gender issues on campus, is aiming to partner with the Undergraduate Council on an initiative to centralize health care resources at the University.

The 20th annual National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week is being recognized from March 21 to 25. As announced by the National Coalition for LGBTQ Health, this year’s theme is “Live out Loud for LGBTQ Health.”

Dr Levine discusses why debates over trans rights are so toxic, and how the climate crisis will widen health disparities

The first openly gay person to lead the American Medical Association takes the reins at a fractious time for US health care

As an added effort to raise awareness about monkeypox, The White House is tapping GLAAD to collaborate on a monkeypox briefing to be geared towards “a select group of LGBTQ influencers” that can share the information with their followers.

In this conversation recorded for Washington Post Live on Feb. 22, Demetre Daskalakis, a career HIV specialist and advocate currently acting as the deputy coordinator for the White House National Monkeypox Response, speaks about the search for an HIV vaccine, the role stigma plays in viruses propagating and whether eradicating HIV is possible in the near future.

Willam and Jackie Beat have teamed up with MISTR to promote the platform's free PrEP services in the most holly jolly, horny way.

Southern Health NHS has commissioned this new project as part of their commitment to supporting their LGBT colleagues and the population who seek care.

Learn how the AMA Foundation National LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program is working to improve U.S. health equity.

An extra 50,000 vaccine doses will be made available in cities like Atlanta and New Orleans, where Pride celebrations are scheduled later this year.

The proposal would also cover pregnant women seeking health-care services, including abortion.

A new survey shows that many LGBTQ+ Americans face discrimination from their health insurer. Still, many say health insurance is improving for LGBTQ+ people.

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The report provides the NIH with guidance for gathering data on gender and sexuality, key to understanding disparities across marginalized populations.

As a former operations and marketing executive at startups in the edtech and crypto space, Liana Douillet Guzmán is an unconventional choice to lead a health care startup. But she thinks it is precisely that unique background that positions her well as the new CEO of LGBTQ-focused digital health care provider FOLX Health.