The Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal has set aside more than R20-million in an effort to reduce HIV infections among the LGBTQI+ community.
Their plan is to provide these tools to those who need them when they present at health facilities. They said it has always been a deficiency on the part of the department not to offer HIV prevention to the LGBTQI+ community. “They are often subjected to various forms of discrimination, stigma and prejudice when they try to access our healthcare facilities. We have an urgent task to make our healthcare facilities welcoming and gender-affirming.”However, she added that through partnerships with NGOs such as the Aurum Institute in Pietermaritzburg and Beyond Zero in Durban, they had been able to support some of the initiatives catering to this group.
“The attitude among some staff members is undesirable. There are still people who will ask a lesbian woman how they got HIV as a lesbian.” She hopes the decision by the department will lead to the full provision of other services such as hormone therapy, currently only available in some facilities in Pietermaritzburg.
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