Ever since the AIDS epidemic, it has been understood that the LGBTIQ community has special health needs. Whether it relates to sexual health, mental health or the response to pandemics, the rainbow community has its own way of interrogating and improving health outcomes.
One person who has made the study of LGBTIQ health their life work is Tonda Hughes – Professor at Columbia University and founder of the Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research. It is the first and only centre of its type to look at health from the perspective of Nursing.
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