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Title: HEALTH-ARGENTINA: "Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits
Post by: Shana A on August 22, 2009, 04:07:02 PM
Post by: Shana A on August 22, 2009, 04:07:02 PM
HEALTH-ARGENTINA: "Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits
By Marcela Valente
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48183 (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48183)
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 22 (IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by trained health promoters who, like them, have chosen a different gender identity.
"It's easier to communicate among ourselves than with hospital staff," Valeria Ramírez, a transgender promoter with the city of Buenos Aires' Programme to Facilitate Access to the Health System for the Transgender Population, told IPS.
By Marcela Valente
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48183 (http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48183)
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 22 (IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by trained health promoters who, like them, have chosen a different gender identity.
"It's easier to communicate among ourselves than with hospital staff," Valeria Ramírez, a transgender promoter with the city of Buenos Aires' Programme to Facilitate Access to the Health System for the Transgender Population, told IPS.
Title: "Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits in Argentina
Post by: Natasha on August 26, 2009, 05:04:07 PM
Post by: Natasha on August 26, 2009, 05:04:07 PM
"Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits in Argentina
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2080/68/ (http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2080/68/)
8/26/09
(IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by trained health promoters who, like them, have chosen a different gender identity.
"It's easier to communicate among ourselves than with hospital staff," Valeria Ramírez, a transgender promoter with the city of Buenos Aires' Programme to Facilitate Access to the Health System for the Transgender Population, told IPS.
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2080/68/ (http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2080/68/)
8/26/09
(IPS) - Keeping a hospital appointment in the Argentine capital is a far less fearsome ordeal for transgender persons, a sector of the population that according to doctors had "dramatic" statistics of illness, when they are accompanied by trained health promoters who, like them, have chosen a different gender identity.
"It's easier to communicate among ourselves than with hospital staff," Valeria Ramírez, a transgender promoter with the city of Buenos Aires' Programme to Facilitate Access to the Health System for the Transgender Population, told IPS.