The Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa (PATHSA) will hold its first symposium on 12 November, 8:00–13:00.
Anyone is welcome to attend. Click here to register.
The theme is “Interprofessional education and collaboration in gender-affirming healthcare”. The keynote speaker will be Landa Mabenge.
The symposium will be held online and is open to the public. It is accredited for 4 CPD points for health professionals.
The exciting programme includes presentations on a broad range of topics:
- Population-size estimation of transgender people in South Africa
- Health-service delivery to transgender people - policy implications
- Barriers to gender-affirming healthcare in the public sector in South Africa – Experiences at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto.
- Economic costs and health outcomes of gender-affirming care in adult transgender and gender diverse people in South Africa
- Delivering effective primary healthcare services for the transgender community: A multi-disciplinary team approach
- Social-work contributions to gender-affirming primary health care services
- From sensitization to continued collaborative efforts: Provision of gender-affirming healthcare in Rural KZN
- Gender-affirming healthcare training: Transgender-led organisations leading the way
- Experiences from a support space for educators working with gender diversity
- Medical students and registrars’ attitudes and beliefs towards transgender individuals
- Borders and boundaries: trans allyship in a university setting
- Is the current medical school environment conducive to interprofessional education and collaboration in gender-affirming healthcare? Findings from a narrative enquiry
Registration for PATHSA members is R100, guests R200 and students R50.
Click on this link to register. Fill in your email address and continue to follow the prompts until the registration is complete.