Hormonal care IS lifesaving care. 50% of trans people would have wanted to access hormones at the facility. A change in national policy is critical to ensure that hormones could be prescribed by doctors at primary level, just like they are by private GPs #SAHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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Harm reduction remains out of reach – 68% of facilities say they provide info about where to get sterile needles, but most facilities either referred people to private pharmacies to buy needles themselves, or to hospitals that do not provide them #SAHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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People who use drugs, sex workers, and the LGBTQIA community continue to face dismissive and hostile conditions #KeyPopsHealth #SAHealth
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Only 56% of sex workers, only 44% of trans people, only 36% of GBMSM, and as few as 9% of people who use drugs said staff were always friendly at the clinic #EhlanzeniHealth #MpumalangaHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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While more sites say they prioritise offering PrEP to members of key populations — just 22% of trans people, 20% of GBMSM, 10% of people who use drugs, and 7% of sex workers reported ever being offered PrEP at a facility #GertSibandeHealth #MpumalangaHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
“In our clinics we are frequently laughed at & judged. It forces some people to stop going entirely. Our clinics must treat people who use drugs, sex workers, & the LGBTQIA community with dignity & respect, so that we can protect our own health & lives" #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
READ MORE about our new data collected from interviews with 13,832 queer and trans people, people who use drugs, & sex workers who often face uncaring, disrespectful, cruel, & even abusive treatment at public health facilities #KeyPopsHealth @TAC ritshidze.org.za/ritshidze-s…
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29 Feb 2024
I had two STIs in a space of three months & every time I went there they kept on saying “that's the only reward you'll get as "uMagosha” @Sisonke_ZA @SweatTweets #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
In January and February 2024, 72% of sites said they offer PrEP to GBMSM, 67% to sex workers, 63% to people who use drugs, and 55% to trans people #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
Lubricants are not available. Condoms are but you must collect them where everyone can see you are taking them. There is no privacy #KeyPopsHealth #LupeUpTheHIVResponse
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29 Feb 2024
I went to the clinic to get condoms & lubricants. Inside one of the staff called me ‘peto’, a derogatory term used for gay people, and other patients were laughing #KeyPopsHealth @TAC
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29 Feb 2024
While 92% of sites had external condoms available, only 75% had internal condoms available, & just 28% had lubricant available #LubeUpTheHIVResponse #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
I was told at the clinic to come clean. When I told the security guard that I live on the streets he told me it was my fault since I use drugs. I am never going to that clinic again where they treat us like animals #KeyPopsHealth @SANPUD_NPO
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29 Feb 2024
At the clinic they always ask “why do I do my job, why do I sell my body, isn't there any other job I can do besides selling my body?”... Anytime I went to the clinic, I always come back heartbroken #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
Where people are not treated with compassion, care, & respect, it is not uncommon that they stop going to the clinic altogether #KeyPopsHealth
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29 Feb 2024
There are three guys that died on the streets last year bc we could not get them to the hospital or clinic on time bc the ambulance refused to come #KeyPopsHealth
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23 Nov 2023
I'm a trans woman. I went to the clinic to ask for PEP after I had been raped. The nurse was more interested in the story about the rape & not concerned about my physical or mental wellbeing. I never got the help I expected or deserved #JoburgHealth #GautengHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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23 Nov 2023
They call me "nyaope" at the clinic. They say I'm a failure, but I found nyaope already in this world. I'm now seen as an "animal" to everyone. I'm heartbroken. I'm not given any support to adhere to my ARVs & other chronic treatments #JoburgHealth #GautengHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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23 Nov 2023
Services aren't gender affirming. Only 39% of trans people say clinic staff are respectful of their gender identity—40% say staff use wrong names, 80% wrong pronouns. 50% of trans people wanted access to hormones at their local clinic #JoburgHealth #GautengHealth #KeyPopsHealth
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21 Nov 2023
The experience is bad at the clinic bc I am a trans woman. When I asked for lubricant, I was told to go buy as nothing is free #EkurhuleniHealth #GautengHealth #KeyPopsHealth #LubeUpTheHIVResponse
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