Health Policy Watch news story
HIV services, mental health and harm reduction programmes have been severely affected by the huge funding cuts to organisations providing services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people over the past 18 months.
Perversely, organisations in countries with the most repressive conditions for LGBTIQ people have been worst affected by cuts, according to a report released by Outright, the international LGBTIQ human rights group.
“Organisations in countries with the harshest living conditions, the least impartial justice systems, the most widespread discrimination, and the deepest divisions between social groups were roughly two to three times more likely to have been affected by the cuts than those in countries at the other end of each measure,” according to the report.
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Source : Health Policy Watch
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