LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC.
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This week is LGBT Health Awarens Week, a time to brg attentn to the vastatg cycle of discrimatn and health dispari that affect lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. * lgbt awareness week 2014 *
(Persistence, Rpect, Iniative, Dependabily, and Empathy), gay pri or simply pri, is the promotn of the self-affirmatn, digny, equaly, and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as a social group. In June 2011, Print Barack Obama issued a proclamatn clarg June as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Pri Month and said, "I ll upon the Uned Stat to elimate prejudice everywhere exists, and to celebrate the great diversy of the Amerin people. It memorat the genoci that rulted the ath of an timated 6 ln Jews, 1 ln Gypsi, 250, 000 mentally and physilly disabled people, and 9000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and s llaborators.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC. * lgbt awareness week 2014 *
LGBT History Month is a month-long annual observance of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history and the history of gay rights and related civil rights movements. The Day of Silence is the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network's (GLSEN) annual day of actn to prott the bullyg and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts and their supporters.
LGBT Health Awarens Week is a ll to actn for muny members, advot, service provirs, and ernmental officials to regnize health and wellns as an sential part of the social jtice movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals, fai and the wir muny. * lgbt awareness week 2014 *
May 17 - Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia.
May 17, or the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO or IDAHOT or IDAHOBiT), as is wily regnized, is an sential feature the ternatnal LGBT rights lendar. IDAHO's date was chosen to memorate the cisn to remove homosexualy om the Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas of the World Health Organizatn (WHO) 1990. The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia (or "IDAHO") tablished the IDAHO Commtee to ordate grassroots actns different untri, promote the day, and lobby for the official regnn of May 17.