The Jamaican Forum for Lesbian, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) is worried about the possibility of discrimination by health care providers, they have said to the Jamaica press.
And to reduce the possibility of inadequate or poor provision of health care to their constituents,J-FLAG trained 60 public health workers to better serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in that island between the last quarter of 2013.
According to reports in the Jamaica Gleaner this training is in keeping with This was in keeping with the National HIV Strategy (2012-2017) which recommends that all categories of health-care workers be trained in human rights and in providing services for men who have sex with men (MSM) to “mitigate the likelihood of discrimination”.
Focus group discussions were conducted prior to the workshop to gauge the attitudes and feelings of the health-care workers around providing services to members of the LGBT community.
Those trained included public-health workers included doctors, contact investigators, laboratory technicians, peer educators, nurses and ward assistants from all four health regions trained. Sixpeople from the National Family Planning Board were also trained.
A 10-module training curriculum covering a wide range of issues relating to the provision of services and specific issues affecting the LGBT community was used.
