Transgender Women Face Inadequate Health Care, ‘Shocking’ HIV Rates

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Transgender performers walk backstage during an event to mark World AIDS Day in 2013. A new WHO report demonstrates extremely rates of HIV infection among transgender women in 15 countries.
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 سیستم بهداشت و مراقبت های درمانی در زن فراجنسییتی صورت درست و کاملی ندارد. همچنین نرخ اچ آی وی در این گروه از انسانها در وضعیت تکان دهنده ای قرار دارد.

Transgender people are not getting adequate health care, and widespreaddiscrimination is largely to blame, according to a recent World Health Organization report. And the story is told most starkly in the high rates of HIV among transgender women worldwide.

JoAnne Keatley, one of the authors of that study, puts it plainly.

“Just shocking rates,” she tells NPR’s Arun Rath. “There was a recent meta-analysis demonstrating that a transgender woman was 49 times as likely to be living with HIV [than the general population] in 15 countries in which data was looked at and analyzed.”

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HIV transmission from mother to child nearly eliminated in Canada

Each year, an average of 200 are born in Canada to women diagnosed with HIV

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انتقال اچ آی وی از مادر به فرزند نزدیک به مرز از بین رفتن و حذف در کانادا رسید.

Canada has virtually eliminated the incidence of mothers passing HIV to their infants at birth, primarily because of high rates of pre-natal testing and ready access to drug treatment that subdues the infection, researchers say.

In 2014, there was only one case of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Canada, continuing a decade-long downward trend, said Dr. Jason Brophy, chair of the Canadian Pediatric and Perinatal AIDS Research Group (CPARG), which has been tracking cases since 1990.

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