#discrimination

From November 13 to 20, the Zero Transphobia campaign builds solidarity to fight discrimination, HIV, violence and more.

Discrimination may help trigger unhealthy brain-gut crosstalk that contributes to inflammation, obesity, and other health problems.

New types of plans target cultural and ethnic communities with special offerings and native-language practitioners.

Designation, new research program and update to NIH mission will help ensure inclusion of people with disabilities.

Magic Johnson and his wife, Cookie, were honored at the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation’s annual ball.

Researchers are rethinking living wills and other ACP documents to ensure seriously ill patients get the care they want.

A boost in protection is needed to offset the persistent disparities in the toll of COVID between racial and ethnic groups.

A Mayo Clinic physician emphasizes the need to empower patients by expanding access to care and education.

Until recently, service members living with HIV faced discharges and bans on commissioning and deployment.

Schools operated under the principle that a more diverse workforce of doctors does a better job of treating diverse patients.

A new survey also finds that one third of LGBTQ cancer patients and survivors experienced discrimination in health care settings.

LGBTQ disparities exist in cervical cancer prevention—including HPV vaccines—and in rates of anal cancer, notably among those with HIV.

Screening should be done based on which organs a person has, not their gender identity.

Americans are uprooting their lives in response to a legislation across the country restricting health care for transgender people.

The move follows a lawsuit filed in November to strike down the ban that keeps people with HIV from enlisting in military service.

Although the nation made progress closing the gap between white and Black mortality from 1999 to 2011, COVID erased two decades of progress.