Election year:
2023
Political party:
Labour
Associated politicians:
Policy:
LGBTQ+
- Continue the rollout of the HIV Action Plan which ensures communities at greater risk can access PrEP, which strives to eliminate local transmission of HIV and ensure people with HIV have healthy lives free from stigma and discrimination, and quicker responses to emerging threats like Mpox.
- Continue the mahi we have underway to improve Rainbow health including making access to health care services easier for transgender people by funding for eight primary health care providers around the country to provide gender affirming care.
- Acknowledge the emerging evidence of discrimination and convene a Blood Donation roundtable, bringing together advocates, experts and specialist organisations to explore the latest evidence regarding the Donor Behavioural Criteria; particularly the three month stand down period that applies for sex workers and men who have sex with men.
- Ensure Rainbow voices are represented in healthcare decisions and policy direction by developing and deploying a nationwide informed consent model for gender affirming healthcare and will fund people’s treatment within this model as appropriate to standards of care. We will review the cost of gender-affirming surgeries and treatment with a view to lowering the cost and ensuring more equitable access.
- Labour will implement a child rights- based health care protocol for intersex children, so that no one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood, and binary gender assignment is not automatically presumed to be the best- case outcome.
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