Towards Equity in Service Provision for Gay Men and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Repressive Contexts

Chris Beyrer; Keletso Makofane; Ifeanyi Orazulike; Daouda Diouf; Stefan D Baral

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002154

Towards Equity in Service Provision for Gay Men and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Repressive Contexts

PLoS Med. 2016 Oct 25;13(10):e1002154. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002154. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Authors

Chris Beyrer^{1

2}, Keletso Makofane³, Ifeanyi Orazulike⁴, Daouda Diouf⁵, Stefan D Baral¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
² International AIDS Society, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ The Anova Health Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH), Abuja, Nigeria.
⁵ Enda Santé, Dakar, Senegal.

Abstract

Chris Beyrer and colleagues reflect on an underappreciated trend in multiple African, Asian, and Caribbean settings, in which the provision of HIV and other essential health services for sexual and gender minorities is expanding despite challenging legal and social environments.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Africa
Asia
Caribbean Region
Delivery of Health Care / trends*
Health Equity / trends*
Healthcare Disparities / statistics & numerical data
Homosexuality, Male / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Sexual and Gender Minorities / statistics & numerical data

Grants and funding

A portion of CB's time for writing the paper was provided by the Desmond M. Tutu Professorship endowment at Johns Hopkins. No other funding was received for this work. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.