Healthcare providers from across Southeast Asia had an opportunity to build their skills in providing affirming healthcare for transgender patients as part of the Transgender-Competent Care Workshop, held in Bangkok on January 15, 2019. The workshop drew expertise from across the region, as well as from the Fenway Institute.
Session topics ranged from introductions to terminology around gender identity and health issues faced by transgender community, to more advanced topics such as gender affirmative hormone therapy and gender affirming surgeries.
The workshop also highlighted four unique models that have successfully integrated HIV programming
in health service delivery for transgender people: the transgender community health clinic in a public health facility in Thailand, the standalone transgender community health center in the Philippines, the key populations-owned private clinic in Vietnam, and the private sexual health clinic in Indonesia.
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