An advocacy group in Botswana is working with medical providers to improve transgender and intersex people’s access to health care.
African Women for Sexual Health and Gender Justice in late January conducted a training over a three-day period in the Batswana capital of Gaborone.
Eleven health care providers — seven doctors, four nurses, a patient councillor and an endocrinologist — participated in the training.
Five of the attendees work at Princess Marina Hospital, a public hospital in Gaborone. One of the doctors is affiliated with the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, while two others work at private clinics.