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February 2017

Feb 23
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Guidance Protecting Transgender Students, Threatening Their Health and Well-Being

By | Health Policy, The Fenway Institute, Trans, Youth | No Comments
On February 22, 2017 the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice jointly issued a letter to withdraw previous guidance issued by the Obama Administration requiring schools to treat transgender students in accordance with their gender identity. The guidance issued in May 2016 by the Obama Administration came in response to a growing number of states across the country proposing and passing anti-transgender legislation, much of which specifically targeted transgender youth by prohibiting them from using school restrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. Under President Obama, the Department of Justice and the Department of Education 
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Feb 22
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New Provider Spotlight: Helena Turner, Nurse Practitioner

By | Fenway Health Newsroom, Fenway News, LGBT Health | No Comments
Helena Turner, Nurse Practitioner Joined Fenway in August, 2016 Education: Yale School of Nursing, Master’s in Nursing; Bates College, Bachelor’s in Neuroscience. What inspired you to become a Nurse Practitioner? I majored in neuroscience as an undergraduate and loved the pace of the science, but didn’t really like being in a lab and working with rodents. After college I worked at an outdoor educational center for a couple of years, and found that it was extraordinarily difficult to find primary care services where I was living and working. I thought that becoming a NP would allow me to merge my 
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Feb 16
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Event Puts Spotlight On Health Care Needs Of LGBTQ Women Of Color

By | Community, Fenway Health Newsroom, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, LGBT Health, Women's Health | No Comments
On Saturday, February 11, the Fenway Women’s Health Team hosted the event “Our History: HIV and Queer Women of Color” in collaboration with Lesbians of Color Symposium, Boston Black Pride, and The Fenway Institute. The event featured a screening of the film, “Bumming Cigarettes,” a panel of community health advocates, and a presentation by researchers – all of which centered around the voices of queer women of color in sexual health. Through the film, Tiona McClodden, an award-winning black lesbian filmmaker, explores a brief and intimate meeting between a young black lesbian woman in the process of taking an HIV 
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Feb 12
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Remembering Dr. Judy Bradford

By | Community, Fenway Health Newsroom, News, The Fenway Institute | 7 Comments
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Judy Bradford passed away this weekend after a long and courageous battle with cancer.  As Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute from its inception in 2001, Judy played a key role in building a framework for LGBT-focused research and teaching. She was the first research scientist to head a National Institute of Health (NIH) funded population studies center focused on sexual and gender minority health, and the first to receive NIH funding to support a summer institute to train the next generation of LGBT health researchers, held right here 
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Feb 06
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Take Action This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

By | AIDS Action Committee, AIDS Advocacy, Fenway Health Newsroom, HIV/AIDS | No Comments
Project ABLE, a statewide coalition of AIDS service providers, advocates and people with HIV/AIDS, is commemorating National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day this year with its first Virtual Lobby Day on Tuesday, February 7. As proud members of Project ABLE, Fenway Health and AIDS Action Committee urge you to get involved and take action this Tuesday to fight HIV/AIDS and end racial health care disparities. According to the Department of Public Health, black residents in Massachusetts are diagnosed with HIV infection at ten times the rate of white populations. This disparity is unacceptable and must be combatted with renewed investment in 
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