Juan Carlos Vega, Citizens Alliance Pro LGBTTA Health of Puerto Rico & LGBT HealthLink: the Network for Health Equity Are LGBTT communities getting vaccinated against influenza? If you do a search on Google for “LGBT” and “vaccination”, most results refer to current important efforts towards Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. A fewContinue reading “INFLUENZA VACCINATION AMONG LGBTT COMMUNITIES”
Category Archives: Puerto Rico
#SaludLGBTT Wrap-Up: Working Together as Advocates
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. Now that the hundreds of us who participated in theContinue reading “#SaludLGBTT Wrap-Up: Working Together as Advocates”
#SaludLGBTT Summit: Spotlight on Trans Health
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. There is a human right to have competent health careContinue reading “#SaludLGBTT Summit: Spotlight on Trans Health”
#SaludLGBTT Summit: Spotlight on Bi Health
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. Earlier this week, before coming to Puerto Rico, I gaveContinue reading “#SaludLGBTT Summit: Spotlight on Bi Health”
Health and Human Services Attorney: New Regulations Won’t Cover LGB Discrimination
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. Speaking at the Salud LGBTT summit, Fernando Morales – anContinue reading “Health and Human Services Attorney: New Regulations Won’t Cover LGB Discrimination”
#SaludLGBTT Summit: E-Cigs are a New Face for an Old Addiction
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. “Que es?” Dr. Jeannette Noltenius asks the crowd asContinue reading “#SaludLGBTT Summit: E-Cigs are a New Face for an Old Addiction”
#SaludLGBTT Summit: Intersections of Violence and Health
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. My first official meeting here in San Juan,Continue reading “#SaludLGBTT Summit: Intersections of Violence and Health”
#SaludLGBTT Summit: Educating Medical Professionals on the LGBTT Community
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. This is a series of posts covering Corey’s work in Puerto Rico for the Salud LGBTT conference. Disparities in health are unnecessary, unfair, andContinue reading “#SaludLGBTT Summit: Educating Medical Professionals on the LGBTT Community”
Benson & Hedges Targets LGBTT Communities in Puerto Rico
Juan Carlos Vega, MLS Blogging for the Citizens’ Alliance Pro LGBTTA Health of Puerto Rico, National Latino Alliance Pro Health Equity and the Network for LGBT Health Equity This is bad! As health professionals, community prevention programs, and the Puerto Rico Department of Health strive to reduce tobacco use prevalence among island inhabitants, we have busted BensonContinue reading “Benson & Hedges Targets LGBTT Communities in Puerto Rico”
Getting Ready for #SaludLGBTT
Corey Prachniak is an LGBT rights, HIV policy, and healthcare attorney. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for LGBT Health Equity and tweets @LGBTadvocacy. Next week, the third annual LGBT Health Summit of Puerto Rico hosted by Salud LGBTT will be taking San Juan by storm, and the Network will be coveringContinue reading “Getting Ready for #SaludLGBTT”
LGBT HealthLink, The Network for Health Equity 