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 ...
I guess you could call anal sex messy personal conduct. :-)
Kinda like smokers. Or alcoholics. Whose behavior the government justifies controlling on the grounds that there are huge public costs to allowing it to be freely practiced ...
How so controlled? By taxing the products?
“depression, cancer, and HIV/AIDS”
Celebrate Diversity!
they are full of unhealthy high risk practices. it is all self-inflicted.
So, they’re just the same as everyone else, but they’re different from everyone else, and therefore more deserving of taxpayer dollars. Got it.
And regulating their manufacture, distribution, and sale.
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