In January 2021, the HHS National Viral Hepatitis Strategic Plan: A Roadmap to Elimination for the United States (2021-2025) was released. Importantly, the Goals and Objectives of the plan align with our own local Hep Free 2030 strategy, developed in collaboration with our partners at Hep Free Hawai’i. To understand how to make national impact ...
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From Safe Spaces Hawaii, the ABCs of LGBTQ guides viewers through some basic but important lessons about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. From the perspective of high school youth, this video shows the harm that bullying, stereotypes and rejection can have on youth as well as how youth can flourish with support from both ...
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NEWS RELEASE – DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY (SGM) WORKGROUP SEEKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROVIDER SERVICE DIRECTORY Posted on Nov 20, 2020 in Newsroom HONOLULU – As part of ongoing efforts to enhance the network of care, the Hawai‘i Department of Health’s (DOH) Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Workgroup is seeking local SGM medical providers ...
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Hawaii LGBT Legacy Foundation presents Rainbow Town Hall, a five part community discussion on key topics affecting the LGBTQIA+ community in Hawaii. A list of panelists will be released every week! To join, click here. For more information or questions, please contact Randy Soriano at [email protected]
Click Here to Register OVERVIEW The Learning Community for Clinicians: Testing, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Maternal and Congenital Syphilis is a series of four, 1-hour sessions designed for health care providers who work with pregnant women and newborns from communities that face cultural, economic and language barriers to obtaining good prenatal and neonatal care. This event is provided on ...
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Now available! Thanks to Tai Bradshaw from the Sexual and Gender Minority Workgroup, we are excited to share the SGM Provider Training List. This includes links to SGM-specific trainings and educational resources for medical and social service providers. Please download and share! For more SGM education resources, click here.
Click here to Register OVERVIEW The STI/HIV Prevention Program at the Hawaiʻi Department of Health’s (HIDOH) Harm Reduction Services Branch and the California Prevention Training Center (CAPTC) are offering a live webinar for healthcare providers and community service providers, titled, Syphilis Update: Understanding the Concerning Rise in Maternal and Congenital Syphilis in Hawaii. Providers who work with communities that face cultural, economic and language barriers ...
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Oahu Partners in Care has released its 2020 report on Sexual and Gender Minorities from its annual Homeless Point in Time Count. Read the report. For more resources, check out the SGM Resource Hub.
The Hawaii Health and Data Warehouse has posted a tutorial on how to access Sexual and Gender Minority health data in Hawaii. Don’t get mad…get data! For more resources, check out the SGM Resource Hub.
On World Hepatitis Day 2020, we joined Hep Free Hawai`i and over 80 other partners to release Hep Free 2030, Hawai`i’s first Hepatitis Elimination Strategy. This past year, over a hundred people representing more than fifty agencies participated in over twenty convenings to help create this collaborative, nimble, and community-facing strategy. Download and share the ...
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