“The care is the best you can give at the time”: Health care professionals’ experiences in providing gender affirming care in South Africa

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2017-07-12

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Authors
Spencer, Sarah
Meer, Talia
Muller, Alex
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PLoS ONE

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PLoS One

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University of Cape Town

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Gender, Health and Justice Unit
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Faculty of Health Sciences
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Abstract
While the provision of gender affirming care for transgender people in South Africa is considered legal, ethical, and medically sound, and is—theoretically—available in both the South African private and public health sectors, access remains severely limited and unequal within the country. As there are no national policies or guidelines, little is known about how individual health care professionals providing gender affirming care make clinical decisions about eligibility and treatment options.
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Spencer S, Meer T, Muller A (2017) “The care is the best you can give at the time”: Health care professionals’ experiences in providing gender affirming care in South Africa. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0181132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181132

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