LGBTQIA+ Best Practices – Part 2

Erika Sullivan, MD (she/her)

University of Utah Health – Transgender Health Program

Topics: healthcare needs of LGBTQIA+ communities, HIV PrEP in primary care, and providing gender affirming hormone therapy for transgender people

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the determinants that can lead to poorer health outcomes in gender and sexual minorities and describe common healthcare disparities
• Describe the preventive services that should be offered to LGBT-identified individuals in the primary care setting
• Understand the epidemiology of HIV infection in the Intermountain West
• Describe the two FDA-approved medications that can be prescribed to prevent HIV acquisition
• Describe the WPATH criteria for providing gender affirming care to individuals seeking services for gender affirming care
• Describe the basics of providing masculinizing and feminizing hormone therapy in a primary care setting

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