Soweto finally has a health facility that caters for the LGBTQIA+ community.

The centre was launched by the Gauteng Province minister (MEC) for Health and Wellness, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko on Friday, 8 September at Itireleng Clinic in Soweto, Johannesburg.

The health facility will provide the minimum package of health services that are tailored to meet the health needs of population groups considered to be key populations for HIV and STIs.

The facility will focus on providing comprehensive and compassionate care to homosexual men, and men that sleep with other men.

Nkomo-Ralehoko said the purpose of this facility is to provide exclusive health services to the key population who constantly face rejection and mistreatment when accessing health facilities.

She added that this has transformed the lives of key populations by providing them with necessary support, care and empowerment to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

"One of the notable strengths of this centre lies in the commitment to confidentiality, and non-discrimination. No one will tell other people why you were there in the room consulting. Staff have been sworn into confidentiality," she said.

"We have trained our staff and security guards to take care of these people," she said.

Dr Thulani Mhlongo, one of the key players in ensuring that such facilities are established told the Daily Sun that he is excited that barriers and stigmas will now be broken.

"It is important that we educate our communities and the government about our needs as gay and lesbian people. Gay and lesbian people used to be insulted and called names when they go to the clinics. I'm glad that now they listened to us, and centres are being established to accommodate the members of LGBTQIA+,” said Mhlongo.

Nurse clinician supervisor, Irene Mudau said the patients will be seen at the men’s clinic for consultation with nurse clinicians who have been trained on key populations.

The facility will provide services such as the HIV prevention package including behavioural intervention and pre-exposure prophylaxis. It will also offer HIV testing, counselling, and treatment, condom and lubricant provision, and all related education, just to mention a few.

South Africa was the first country in Africa and the 5th in the world to legalise gay marriage.

https://www.snl24.com/dailysun/news/mec-for-health-and-wellness-nomantu-nkomo-ralehoko-launches-health-centre-for-lgbtqia-community-20230910

Minister (MEC) launches the facility.

Heresy.

Gays not getting healthcare is a danger to everyone. The same homophobic guys bashing gays here are the ones sending HIV back home to their wives. They're sleeping with gays. Thats why they're outspoken, they want to divert attention away from themselves.

Always treat homophobic guys with suspicion - why are they so preoccupied with gay affairs. They feel threatened by openly gay people enjoying their lives. Homophobes are closet gays.

https://www.nairaland.com/2564165/3-anti-gay-pastors-turned-out

Very irritating set of humans

HIV is predominantly in the gay community.

Roboto11:
HIV is predominantly in the gay community.

And why is that if not for Reagan and Thatcher? If not for you straight bigots

TMKsouth:

Gays not getting healthcare is a danger to everyone. The same homophobic guys bashing gays here are the ones sending HIV back home to their wives. They're sleeping with gays. Thats why they're outspoken, they want to divert attention away from themselves

You're making a lot of assumptions and generalisations that are not based on facts or logic.
First of all, gays not getting healthcare is not a danger to everyone. It's a danger to gays themselves, who are discriminated against and denied access to basic human rights and services.

The same homophobic guys bashing gays here are not the ones sending HIV back home to their wives. That's a false and offensive stereotype that stigmatises both gays and HIV-positive people. HIV is not a gay disease, it can affect anyone regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Again, they're not sleeping with gays. That's another false and offensive stereotype that implies that gays are promiscuous and predatory, and that they seduce or coerce straight men into having sex with them. This is not only homophobic, but also heterosexist, as it denies the existence and validity of bisexual and other non-heteronormative identities. The reality is that most people have sex with people they are attracted to and consent to, regardless of their labels or categories.

No one wants to divert attention away from themselves. Another ridiculous and paranoid claim that suggests that they have something to hide or be ashamed of. The fact is that they don't need to divert attention away from themselves, because they already have the privilege and power of being part of the dominant and normative group in society. They don't face the same challenges or threats as gays do. They don't have to worry about being harassed, bullied, assaulted, fired, evicted, disowned, or killed because of who they love or how they identify.

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weirdos..

Hiv cases gonna really skyrock..

SA the african black sheep corntree.

The issue they will be attending to every second of the day is to stitch torn yansh . The population of Europeans and Asians in South Africa is so much that though it has been an advantage to the development of south Africa, it has always made south Africa a blind follower of whatever policy that operates in America, Europe and Asia

That ain't no clinic. It is a psychiatric ward.

This is outrageous, what sort of madness? Gay clinic??

abeg make dem blow whistle if trumpet nor dey again...or dem fit just test the trumpet whether e still dey work...

Stu:pid gay boys. Why are they dressed up like women? If you like a man, then dress up as a real man and let's see how your attraction goes.

Anytime I read or hear the LGBTQ I feel like vomiting…. A cursed set of people

No turning back on basic human rights. Those above me will weep til they turn into dry wood or biltong.

:PBeing gay is a phenomenon that is being studied and hopefully the causes and correction will be understood.

Science is constantly developing. Being gay could be a phenomenon that can be corrected with the appropriate treatment. Till then, they are still members of the larger society.

Why would a happily married straight guy be hateful and obsessed with gays? Why are they intimidated? Ask yourselves ladies. Homophobic guys are closet gays.

Guys who are accepting of gays are comfortable in their own skin - homophobes have questions to answer. Always treat them with suspicion. It has been proven over and over again that behind closed doors they engage in homosexual activities.

CloudTrees:
:PBeing gay is a phenomenon that is being studied and hopefully the causes and correction will be understood.

Science is constantly developing. Being gay could be a phenomenon that can be corrected with the appropriate treatment. Till then, they are still members of the larger society.

You're 70 years late. That was a theory back in the early 1900s. Update your brain caveman.

HandsomeHITLER:
Stu:pid gay boys. Why are they dressed up like women? If you like a man, then dress up as a real man and let's see how your attraction goes.

The Op talks and walk like one too

I'm not sorry but South Africa is 'sick'...



Always trying to form woke and looking down on their fellow Africans thinking that will make them better.



Confused entity

What fvckary is this🤮

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anal fissure and haemorrhoids would be the most treated ailment there

Shinjawestern:
I wish I can k*LL all gays..

Stupid people

And you think because they are gay they are also defenceless. Ever heard of a case where the hunter becomes the hunted? No try am oh.

Most of these homophobes are closeted gays struggling with internalised homophobia. In fact, the more vocal they are about the hate toward gays, the bigger the suspicion.

I have witnessed this countless times. Behind close doors you will see them eating dick as if their life depends on it. And most often, they molest small boys because they are more vulnerable and easy to control.

Homophobes are the worst and needs to be purged from our society.

Is Dr Thulani in the first pic, male or female? 🤔

It's the responsibility of naija boys to fùck SA women as the male population would soon be gay

Indeed we are created differently. Human species will soon go into extinction with the rise in gay population.