LGBTQ+ clients with breast cancer encounter delays in analysis and have worse results than cisgender heterosexual individuals, according to investigate released in JAMA Oncology. Scientists located that LGBTQ+ sufferers have a better threat of cancer recurrence, and they are additional very likely to decrease their oncologist’s advisable study course of remedy. This retrospective, situation-regulate study […]
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Monkeypox Outbreak Perpetuates Harmful Stigma Toward LGBTQ+ Community
In 1981, the small comprehended human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began spreading in widening pockets across the globe, specifically amongst homosexual men and intravenous drug people. Ultimately, much more than 36 million folks have been killed by the obtained immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), ensuing from HIV. The AIDS epidemic raged for extra than a 10 years just […]
Durham Queer Health Fair serving LGBTQ NCians
By Elizabeth Thompson It was only about a decade ago when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first medication that provided pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to lower people’s risk of catching HIV, Truvada. Scotty Elliot still remembers the stigma that followed people who chose to get on the medication. “Guys who took it were […]