Right to Pride
Everyone has a fundamental human right to live free from violence, persecution, discrimination and stigma.
Many people still consider the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities as well as men who have sex with men (MSM) to be different and separate to mainstream society.
For this reason, many LGBTI people or MSM experience the effects of stigma and are even persecuted.
Right to Pride was set up by Right to Care – a human rights-based organization – to address these issues. We want to make sure that no one is marginalised or mistreated because of their sexuality.
Right to Pride provides services to assist these communities in:
Sensitising healthcare workers
We have worked with healthcare partners to help healthcare workers better understand the needs and rights of LGBTI people, MSM and also people who inject drugs (PWID).
Many healthcare and social workers are not adequately trained to deal with the health needs of the LGBTI, MSM and PWID communities.
It is important for healthcare workers and clinicians to respect and appreciate diversity and the choices their patients make. The better an issue is understood, the better the healthcare intervention will be.
