Pa. physician general emphasizes the importance of enhancing transgender health care at World AIDS Day Conference

PITTSBURGH—Speaking at the World AIDS Day Conference, Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine emphasized the importance of HIV disease education for health professionals working with transgender individuals. “Helping medical professionals better understand how to prevent and treat HIV disease in the transgender community can be a matter of life and death,” said Dr. Levine. “Today…

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Dr. Rachel Levine becomes nation’s first openly transgender physician general

Once described by political pundit and famed Clintonista James Carville as “Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between,” Pennsylvania has made U.S. history by nominating and confirming – by a 49-0 vote – Dr. Rachel Levine to become the nation’s first openly transgender state physician general. Christian Alexandersen, writing on PennLive.com, announced yesterday…

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