Transgender HIV/AIDS Health Services Best Practices GuidelinesNew guidelines for HIV/AIDS health services for transgender individuals have been developed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health's HIV Health Services, which received a 2-year grant in 2000 from the HRSA/HAB (Health Resources Services Administration and HIV/AIDS Bureau) Part C (formerly Title 3) Capacity Building Grant Program.
The Transgender Cultural Competency Training Project was developed to address disparities in access to services for HIV-infected transgender clients and to assist providers to improve the delivery of services to the transgender community. Efforts initiated with these funds came to fruition in the Project's second year when the California State Office of AIDS partnered with HIV Health Services and the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) to develop the first state-wide, 2.5-day conference on transgender care and prevention. The conference, "Equality and Parity: A Statewide Action for Transgender HIV Prevention and Care," proved a resounding success, attracting over 200 care and prevention professionals, as well as consumers, from throughout
One of the highlights of the Conference was a discussion among participants about the lack of standardized guidelines for serving transgender persons and the need for best practices, which could help to expand and improve the quality, scope, effectiveness, and outcomes of HIV-specific transgender care services. These guidelines could also serve as a keystone for implementing transgender specific services and for treating and serving transgender persons.
With a second HRSA Part C Capacity Building Grant in 2005, HIV Health Services developed HIV-specific transgender Best Practices guidelines. HIV Health Services partnered with the consulting firm of Harder+Co and an advisory board comprised of 17 experts in transgender care and preventions. The results of this collaboration are innovative, broad-based best practices guidelines that could be applied at various different levels of organizational development.
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The conference program for "Equality and Parity: A Statewide Action for Transgender HIV Prevention and Care" is available at:
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In addition to the guidelines, a HRSA/HAB report based on a community consultation is also available. "HIV/AIDS in the Transgender Population: A Community Consultation Meeting" focuses on three major areas of need for the transgender community: 1) education; 2) research and data; and 3) access to resources.
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