Chlamydia remains the most common sexually-transmitted and blood-borne infections in Canada, disproportionately affecting people assigned female at birth and trans and gender-diverse individuals. Yet, public health research and clinical guidelines have historically overlooked disabled, Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC), Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (2S/LBTQ+) women and gender-diverse communities. These populations continue to experience multi-layered intersectional barriers – rooted in sexism, cisheteronormativity, ableism, and racism – that make access to testing, care, and information difficult to access and unsafe concurrently.
This report presents findings from We Deserve Chlamydia Care, one of the first community-based studies in Canada to explore how disabled, IBPOC, and 2S/LBTQ+ women and gender-diverse communities experience access to chlamydia testing and care in Ontario.
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