People with disabilities are denied equal access to conversations, resources, health care, autonomy, and lived experiences relating to sexuality, sexual health, and relationships. Ableism has allowed sexual health providers, educators,…
…health, sensory, environmental, cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities experience inadequate health care because of a lack of primary care providers trained to treat them. In 2000, Healthy People 2010, cautioned…
…charge of our care, or lost in the shuffle when systems and providers fail to coordinate. For 14 years, Georgetown’s Health Initiative has provided patient advocacy, health education, home visits,…
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) condemns today’s vote by the House of Representatives to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The AHCA, if passed by the Senate, would…
…about discriminating against disabled people who want to be kinship caregivers or foster parents. Integration mandate: The proposed rule requires that heath care settings provide healthcare and services to people…
…requirement about mental health history will give pause to individual health care professionals considering offering gender affirming care to transgender people with any record of treatment for mental health disabilities…
…best practice guidelines for health care providers serving children with disabilities would make the health care experience better for disabled children, alleviate needless suffering, and promote the provision of quality…
…Affordable Care Act, cut Medicaid funding and leave millions of people with no health insurance. The people of [your state] are still watching, and our health care is just as…
…to scrap this bill, and work together on a meaningful, bipartisan basis to improve the Affordable Care Act and make health care better for all of us. They work for…
…the way for more challenges against seclusion and restraint throughout the US. We fought health care discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’re pushing for those protections to be enshrined…
