'We can't help you here': The discursive erasure of sexual minorities in South African public sexual and reproductive health services
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Date
2016
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The British Psychological Society
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Abstract
Worldwide, sexual and gender minorities struggle to access sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. In South Africa, sexual prejudice is entrenched and pervasive in health systems and SRH services do not cater for a diverse range of people. Though health reform is underway, little attention has been given to how sexuality is being addressed in this process, particularly in the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme currently being piloted. We analyse interview data generated in an NHI
pilot district, using discursive methodology, informed by a sexual and reproductive justice standpoint. We show how sexual and gender minorities are discursively in/visibilised in health settings and discuss these findings in relation to the social justice and solidarity aims of health systems reform.
Description
Morison, T., Lynch I. “'We can't help you here': The discursive erasure of sexual minorities in South African public sexual and reproductive health services”. First published in “Psychology of Sexualities Review” 2016.
Keywords
sexual minorities, LGBTQ, heterosexism, health system reform, sexual and reproductive health, universal coverage
Citation
Psychology of Sexualities Review, 2016, 7 (2), pp. 7 - 25