National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center

This report published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington draws attention to prevailing maternal health issues and the challenges they possess. The report addresses not only maternal deaths, but a range of issues and complications affecting women during and after pregnancy. IHME found that disabling conditions related to pregnancy include obstructed labor and uterine rupture, maternal hypertension, and maternal hemorrhage. Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest rate of…

This article from The Lancet HIV estimates the global, regional, and national sex-burden of the HIV epidemic using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. This paper seeks to provide policymakers and health officials an understanding of the health challenges the globe or their individual countries face, as well as how these challenges change over time. The GBD papers incorporate the prevalence of a disease, injury, or risk factor and the relative…

This case study relays information about ways to create a “Safe and Positive Space”—an organization that is open, welcoming, inclusive, equitable, and accessible to all sexual and gender diversities and whose policies and practices reflect a supportive environment and personnel for both clients and staff. This study highlights the importance of understanding the complexities of the social determinants of health and health equity, and the ways in which these concepts manifest themselves in the lives…