Subject: RE: LGBT
From: Ketevan Goginashvili
To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 09:55:00 +0000

International organizations (eg, UNICEF, Global Fund) often carry short-term trainings in reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, and providing medical services with special needs contingent

Ketevan Goginashvili, MPH

Head of Health Policy Division

Health Care Department

Ministry of Internally displaced Persons

from  Occupied Territories,

Labor, Health and Social Affairs

144 Tsereteli Ave

Tbilisi 0119, Georgia

Tel: +995 32 251 00 38 ext 1108

Mob: 995 577717984

From: Maia Nikoleishvili
Sent: 30 May, 2019 12:15
To: Ketevan Goginashvili
Subject: LGBT

Equal access to health (including through training and sensitization of health care personnel), regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression

Access to medical services for all Georgian population is ensured through State Health Programs. “Universal Health Coverage Program” covers basic services, including: Planned and emergency out-patient services; Planned surgery and emergency in-patient services; Cancer diagnostics and treatment: chemotherapy, hormone and radiation therapy and related medical examinations and medicines; Childbirth and caesarean section; In patient medical services during high-risk pregnancies, labor and postpartum period; Infectious diseases management.

In addition to Universal Health Coverage, various targeted (public health and disease oriented) programs are applicable. Targeted programs cover medical services in a wide range of important areas such as Immunization, Tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, Drug Abuse, Maternal and Child Health, Hepatitis C, Mental Health, Diabetes, Onco-hematology, Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Palliative Care of Incurable Patients, Treatment of Patients with Rare Diseases, Urgent Emergency Assistance, Rural Doctor Program, Provision with Medications for Chronic Diseases, etc.

According to the Article 6 of the Law on “Health Care”: “It shall be prohibited to discriminate against a patient due to his/her race, skin colour, language, sex, religion, political and other beliefs, national, ethnic and social affiliation, origin, property status and title, place of residence, disease, sexual orientation, or a personal negative attitude”.