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Commentary: How HIV advocacy can be used to ensure quality transgender health care: lessons from South Africa

Year: 2025

Type: editorial

Abstract: Based on rights entrenched in the 1996 Constitution for transgender people, South Africa has made substantial progress in advancing transgender health (appendix). We present some insights from the experience in South Africa of how HIV funding augmented the trajectory of transgender health care in South Africa. A 2018-19 survey conducted with transgender women showed high rates of HIV infection, ranging from 45.5% to 63.3%, in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Buffalo City; this finding shows the vulnerability of these women.1 At the same time, HIV funding has provided direct health service provision to transgender people in lower-income countries, alongside HIV activism, which has helped shape the discourse on quality, appropriate, and responsive gender-affirming care as part of primary health-care packages in these countries.

Source: Human Science Research Council SA

DOI: 10.14749/30831050

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7111100662

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