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IAS 2019 – A focus on trans communities
The inclusion of trans communities in the global HIV response is growing, and with it, a greater understanding of the necessity for differentiated service delivery, community-led services, and a holistic approach that integrates HIV and sexual health care with trans-related healthcare.
HRC 41: Statement to Clustered Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Health and Special Rapporteur on Leprosy document
Trans and gender diverse activists expressed their concern for mental health care used as a weapon in the form of forced institutionalization and treatment against trans and gender diverse people:
- Published
- 24 June 2019
Joint Statement on ICD-11 process for trans & gender diverse people
The ICD-11 is to be voted in at the 72nd World Health Assembly. After moving trans-related categories out of the Chapter on Mental Health, the next steps in the process include getting rid of the remaining pathologizing language and advancing towards legal depathologization and universal health coverage.
- Published
- 24 May 2019
Press Release: ICD-11 depathologizes Trans & Gender Diverse identities
Organisations from across the world have signed a joint statement and Call to Action to join with us in working together to fully dismantle pathologization. Trans identities are formally de-psycho-pathologized in the ICD-11.
- Published
- 24 May 2019


