Topic: LGBTQIA

Ecological Perspectives for Deconstructing Medical Mistrust in Transgender Health

Ecological Perspectives for Deconstructing Medical Mistrust in Transgender Health.

Panel speakers Valerie Spencer, Cecilia Gentili, and Jenna Rapues describe how an ecological perspective can combat the negative impacts of medical mistrust, identify and discuss the tools, actions, and policies needed to create gender-affirming clinical programs, and discuss advocacy efforts to address institutional barriers to gender affirming clinical care and treatment programs. Moderated by Shawn Demmons

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Decolonizing Transgender Health

Decolonizing Transgender Health

Dr. Sand Chang describes how colonization influences western healthcare systems, and its impact on transgender health care, the importance in decolonizing transgender health, when providing affirming care to transgender communities of Color, and explores strategies in implementing a decolonized framework in clinics.

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In Sickness and Health: Exploring the Diversity of Gender in Patient-Centered HIV Care

In Sickness and Health: Exploring the Diversity of Gender in Patient-Centered HIV Care

Panel members Tyree Williams, Octavia Lewis, Levi Maxwell, Marcus Arana and Victor Motherwell explore the diversity of gender identity, discuss the importance of gender identity in the provision of HIV prevention, care, and treatment services, describe how to repair distrust and affirm gender diverse folx in HIV care. They identify tools and resources to foster continued learning and self-reflection.

Moderated by JaDawn Wright-Morgan.

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An Intersectional Look at Providing Transgender Health

An Intersectional Look at Providing Transgender Health

Dr. Tatyana Moaton discusses the importance of including transgender people in their own medical care. She describes how an intersectional approach fights medical mistreatment of the transgender community and identifies implementation strategies for ending medical mistrust.

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Home Training STD Expert Hour – Transgender Sexual Health: What You Should Know

STD Expert Hour – Transgender Sexual Health: What You Should Know

August 26, 2021

This webinar is presented by Gayge Maggio, FNP-BC, AAHIVS and will focus on the sexual health needs of transgender and gender non-conforming people.

There will be a focus on learning to approach sexual health in a culturally sensitive, non-judgmental manner.

Unique PrEP and PEP considerations in TGNC populations will be covered, as will contraceptive options for female assigned at birth TGNC patients.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Discuss and perform a culturally sensitive sexual health inventory with transgender patients
  2. Discuss considerations with PrEP and PEP in transgender populations and provide appropriate PrEP options
  3. Discuss options for contraception in assigned female at birth transgender and gender non-conforming patients

Medical Mistrust and the LGBTQ+ Community

Medical Mistrust and the LGBTQ+ Community

Session one of the medical mistrust symposium hosted by the California Prevention Training Center, UCLA HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services, and Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center on March 10 and 11, 2021.

Panelists George Jackson, Janelle Luster, and Shawn Demmons participate in an enlightening discussion about medical mistrust and the LGBTQ+ community. Duran Rutledge of the California Prevention Training Center moderates.

Watch all recorded videos from the event on our YouTube Medical Mistrust Symposium playlist.

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Coming Together for Sexual Health

Coming Together for Sexual Health is a podcast for providers and advocates passionate about health equity and inclusive care. We unpack both the how and the why of improving sexual and reproductive health. From root structural problems to improvements in clinical care, we keep the attention on people most impacted by STIs, HIV, and emerging infectious diseases.

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Michelle Lopez
S4 E8 Intimacy Starts with I: Women, Self-Love, and HIV with Michelle Lopez
S4 E8 Intimacy Starts with I: Women, Self-Love, and HIV with Michelle Lopez CW: Mention of abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, incest, molestation At 24 years old, in the early 90’s, Michelle Lopez was riding a train in New York with her newborn baby and saw an advertisement that spoke to her. It said, “If […]

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S4 E7 Dan Savage on the Magic Question “What are you into?” & Dr. Ina Park on How Providers Can Help
S4 E7 Dan Savage on the Magic Question “What are you into?” & Dr. Ina Park on How Providers Can Help Dan Savage is a sex-advice columnist and podcaster, and Ina Park is a sex positive STI researcher, physician, and author. The two come together in this episode to discuss desire, pleasure, and how to communicate about what feels good with partners and providers. Dan delves into discovering kinks, pleasure as we age, and trying new things alone […]

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S4 E6 Family Planning as Gender Affirming Care with Trans and Nonbinary Patients
Director of Gender-Affirming Care for UC Davis Health, Miles Harris, FNP-BC, advocates for the integration of gender-affirming care with primary care and family planning. He shares that “so much of gender affirming care is not about hormones” and that “it is often so easy as a health care provider to do the thing that someone needs that changes their life.”

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S4 E3: America’s War on Drugs and Harm Reduction Around the World with Tanagra Melgarejo Pulido
Tanagra Melgarejo Pulido from the National Harm Reduction Coalition speaks with host Tammy Tae about harm reduction around the world, the role race plays in the criminalization of drug use, and what the future holds for safer drug use policies and programs. She explains how harm reduction began with “communities of people who used drugs looking at each other, say[ing] wait a minute, … ‘We love each other, we care for each other. We need to build power and we need to work together” with an importance placed on looking at the social determinants of health and the impact of colonization, not only with capitalism but with racism, the War on Drugs in Black and brown communities that are in…

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S4 E2: Harm Reduction by Heart with Braunz Courtney
Host Tammy Kremer sits down with Braunz Courtney to speak on how he practiced strategies of harm reduction at the age of 11 before he knew what the term meant. He went from dancing shirtless to raise awareness of the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in queer Black communities to serving as the Executive Director of the HIV Education Prevention Project of Alameda County. He touches upon the importance of organizations that understand the lived experiences of the populations they serve.

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S4 E1: Narcan Queen Kochina Rude on Drag and Harm Reduction
S4 E1: Narcan Queen Kochina Rude on Drag and Harm Reduction CW: Opioid Overdose, Molestation  Welcome to our mini-series on Harm Reduction! Host Tammy Kremer sits down with drag queen Kochina Rude to share how she uses her performances to educate the LGBTQ+ community about Naloxone administration, safer partying, and overdose prevention. At her show “Princess,” cohosted with […]

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S3 E14: Monkeypox: Where are We Now? with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong
In this week’s episode, host Tammy Kremer chats with UCSF infectious disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong about the current state of the monkeypox/mpox outbreak: how this outbreak reflects contemporary health inequities, how stigma can be a barrier to people accessing treatment, and how lessons learned from past public health crises shaped the clinical and community mpox response

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CAPTC History
S3 E12: Four Decades of Sexual Health: History of the CAPTC
Guest host Dana Cropper, current director of the California Prevention Training Center, sits down with two former CAPTC directors, Gail Bolan, MD, and Alice Gandelman, to discuss the founding of the CAPTC and the organization’s work in supporting sexual healthcare providers over the last 33 years
Home Training Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

CDC Train's Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to provide inclusive and affirming services to your patients.

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The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center

The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center

The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center provides educational programs, resources, and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people.

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MSM Sexual Health Standards of Care

MSM Sexual Health Standards of Care 2017

NCSD and NASTAD convened a Blue Ribbon Panel of experts from academia, city and state health departments, the CDC, and the NNPTC to develop optimal standards of client-focused clinical care for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). These standards illustrate the highest quality of sexual health care for MSM, expanding beyond federal guidelines to incorporate the collective experience of experts in the field of sexual health.

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