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- 21 April 2018
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- 21 April 2018
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WHO Meeting: Universal Health Coverage
On 22nd and 23rd March 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a meeting with Civil Society (SC), WHO staff and Global Partners at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. The topic of conversation was to “Promote health, keep the world safe, serve the vulnerable: HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Universal Health Coverage.”Continue reading "WHO Meeting: Universal Health Coverage"
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- 28 March 2018
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- 15 December 2017
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Press Release: Gender is not an illness: How pathologizing trans people violates international human rights law
Gender Is Not An Illness presents the argument that the pathologization of trans people infringes international human rights law, and leads to a range of human rights violations across civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights.
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- 15 December 2017
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GATE Submission to WHO on Intersex Issues in the process of ICD reform
The proposed ICD-11 draft introduces the category of “disorders of sex development” as the diagnostic umbrella term for intersex variations. We propose to replace it with “congenital variations of sex characteristics”, and other additional systemic changes.
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- 10 October 2017
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- 22 July 2016
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Amets Suess: Nos preocupa la patologización de la diversidad de género en la infancia
Amets Suess of Stop Trans Pathologization (STP), a global initiative advocating for the depathologization of trans* individuals, writes about a growing concernt regarding the medicalization of gender diversity in childhood.NOTE: This article is available in Spanish only.
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- Amets Suess
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- 28 October 2015
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- Sam Winter
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- 23 October 2015
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- 8 December 2014
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- 8 December 2014
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Intersex Issues in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
From discussions at the Third International Intersex Forum in Malta, December 2013, a meeting of activists and experts took place in Geneva, in September 2014, on revision and reform of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- 26 November 2014
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Intersex Issues in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) document
This report establishes a set of grounding principles, and provides an overview of terminological and historical issues, before an analysis of broad and specific issues with the ICD framework and diagnoses. The submission also details human rights concerns and presents an epistemological analysis.
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- 26 November 2014
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- 18 October 2014
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Funding the Trans* HIV Response
Both the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) and the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) have recently introduced new funding mechanisms involving country-level dialogue and strategy processes that aim to increase targeted HIV interventions to key populations, including transgender people.
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- 18 September 2014
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- 18 September 2014
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- 19 August 2014
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New developments in the ICD Revision Process
GATE (Global Action for Trans* Equality) and STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization report that the World Health Organization (WHO) has published online its proposals on trans* health in the ICD-11 Beta Draft. The publication includes the two new categories proposed by the WHO Working Group: ‘Gender incongruence of adolescence and adulthood’ and ‘Gender incongruenceContinue reading "New developments in the ICD Revision Process"
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- 19 August 2014
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- 1 May 2013