User:Mtekeste/His Health

His Health, sponsored by National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), is an interactive online training tool that enhances social literacy and offers health professionals with strategic clinical strategies to offer equitable and optimal care for black gay men and transgender women. Black gay men are disproportionally affected by the HIV epidemic and oftentimes subject to receive suboptimal care due to a myriad of social factors (i.e. stigma and discrimination associated with race, homophobia and other systemic inequalities). His Health offers continued education training for healthcare providers to conduct holistic health assessments, training on the use and appropriate provision of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP),education surrounding transgender health, and provides cultural competence training. Training in cultural competence offers healthcare providers a more nuanced understanding of various internal and extraneous factors (as it relates to race and sexual orientation) may influence health in this population. Such trainings can equip healthcare providers with important clinical strategies to engage in meaningful conversations with patients to engage and facilitate linkage and retention of care for young black gay men. His Health has a companion site, Well versed, which shares a similar vision of educating healthcare providers in LGBTQ health and empowering black gay men to increase their literacy in sexual health, have candid conversations with providers about sexual health and provides education in how to navigate the healthcare system. In doing this, His Health and Well Versed, move towards removing both personal and institutional barriers that discourage access to care.