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NIH recognizes LGBTQ community as 'health disparity population'
nbcnews.com ^ | Oct. 7, 2016 | Noel Gutierrez-Morfin

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: aids; homosexualagenda; lgbtqrstuvwxyz; nih; riskybehavior
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To: SauronOfMordor

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.


21 posted on 10/07/2016 12:50:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PROCON

“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.


22 posted on 10/07/2016 12:51:46 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: GraceG

This is about research that skews the numbers and propagandizes the public


23 posted on 10/07/2016 12:52:18 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Apparently the so called expert doctors do know this fact either.


24 posted on 10/07/2016 12:53:26 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Little Ray

You're missing some letters.

LG makes good stuff.

25 posted on 10/07/2016 12:55:54 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: PROCON

“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.”

5.56mm


26 posted on 10/07/2016 12:56:37 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: fishtank

As I said LGwhatever.
Luckygoldstar is a fine company.


27 posted on 10/07/2016 12:59:48 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: PROCON

Read my tagline.


28 posted on 10/07/2016 1:10:03 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

Me too, Bro.


29 posted on 10/07/2016 1:11:27 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

this is about mooching money from government.

look at the epipen. A senator gives his daughter’s company favors.


30 posted on 10/07/2016 1:12:57 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: PROCON

Any time the Left uses the word ‘disparity,’ hold on to your wallet.


31 posted on 10/07/2016 1:13:02 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: PROCON
There are two ways of treating this outrageous social injustice. One is to throw resources at finding a cure for self-inflicted injuries on the part of a, ah, sexual minority. The other is to make the rest of us equally sick.

I wish I were joking.

32 posted on 10/07/2016 1:16:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
The other is to make the rest of us equally sick.

I wish I were joking.

Me too.

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33 posted on 10/07/2016 1:20:23 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON
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,"

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.

34 posted on 10/07/2016 1:25:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. --Donald Trump (standing ovation)
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To: LydiaLong
Any time the Left uses the word ‘disparity,’ hold on to your wallet.

And brace for insanity.

35 posted on 10/07/2016 1:35:32 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: PROCON

The NIH should just say that the LGBTQ are “sick people”.


36 posted on 10/07/2016 1:43:22 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)
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To: PROCON

Read the entire article for a pantload of inanities.


37 posted on 10/07/2016 1:50:53 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: PROCON

Reality is homophobic...


38 posted on 10/07/2016 1:54:02 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: PROCON

Fewer than half of the people have a Y chromosome. Men are a gender minority.


39 posted on 10/07/2016 2:15:11 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: PROCON

They have a proclivity for messy personal conduct that leads to health problems.


40 posted on 10/07/2016 2:30:19 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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