Posted on 10/07/2016 12:31:30 PM PDT by PROCON
In an effort to begin the process of rectifying health-related issues that disproportionately affect the LGBTQ community, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Thursday they will formally designate "sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) as a health disparity population for NIH research."
"Mounting evidence indicates that SGM populations have less access to health care and higher burdens of certain diseases, such as depression, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. But the extent and causes of health disparities are not fully understood, and research on how to close these gaps is lacking," Eliseo Pérez-Stable M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, said in a statement.
"This designation marks an important and necessary step in realizing NIH's mission to advance the health of all Americans," Pérez-Stable added.
Kellan Baker, a senior fellow for the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress, has been working with the NIH to make the announcement a reality since the beginning of the Obama administration. Now that it has come to fruition, Baker believes that not only will the NIH be able to coordinate more effectively among its many institutes that study LGBT health disparities, but that LGBT health research will be taken more seriously in general.
"This isn't a matter of politics. It isn't a matter of public opinion. It's a scientific fact that LGBTQ people face a health disparity."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The suck-down (economically, not talking about other kinds mph mph my lips are zipped) this represents, will not play well with a people being asked to swallow socialized medicine. The pets today will become pariahs tomorrow.
“sexual and gender minorities . . . have . . . higher burdens of certain diseases, such as . . . HIV/AIDS. But the extent and causes of health disparities are not fully understood”
Really? If anyone is unsure why gay men have a much higher incidence of HIV/AIDS than normal men, they are just not paying attention.
This is about research that skews the numbers and propagandizes the public
Apparently the so called expert doctors do know this fact either.
You're missing some letters.
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“they (the NIH) will formally designate “sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) as a health disparity”
I agree with the NIH. Just not their definition of “disparity.”
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this is about mooching money from government.
look at the epipen. A senator gives his daughter’s company favors.
Any time the Left uses the word ‘disparity,’ hold on to your wallet.
I wish I were joking.
I wish I were joking.
Me too.
FDA Lifts Ban on Blood Donations from Men Who Have Had Sex with Men
The stupid. It hurts. It also costs the taxpayer for things the average 6-year-old could figure out: don't put an outie in a poopoo chute, and don't smash an innie on an innie trying to make it feel like an outie-innie.
It causes depression, which lowers your immunity to almost every other disease.
And brace for insanity.
The NIH should just say that the LGBTQ are “sick people”.
Read the entire article for a pantload of inanities.
Reality is homophobic...
Fewer than half of the people have a Y chromosome. Men are a gender minority.
They have a proclivity for messy personal conduct that leads to health problems.
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