Tag: Fenway Health
Par and Perrigo Pharmaceuticals Urged to Address and Remedy the National Shortage of Injectable Oestrogen
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center is leading a national coalition – with partners from Fenway Health in Boston and Treatment Action Group in New York City – that has collected 570 signatures for a petition calling on pharmaceutical companies Par and Perrigo to address and remedy the national shortage of injectable oestrogen.
Lesbians and Bisexual Women Lag Behind Heterosexual Women in Receiving Adequate Cervical Cancer Screening
Lesbians and bisexual women are as likely as heterosexual women to develop cervical cancer, but are much less likely to be regularly screened for it, putting them at greater risk of the potentially deadly disease, according to a policy brief released today by The Fenway Institute.
More HIV Prevention Funding Should Be Shifted to Gay Men, Fenway Says
New infections up 12% among men who have sex with men (MSM) in 2010, CDC reports, but prevention for MSM is underfunded compared with other risk groups.