# Empowering Health and Identity: The Vital Role of Gender-affirming Care for Individuals With HIV

## TL;DR

This paper highlights the importance of gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals with HIV to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities.

## Contribution

The paper emphasizes the unique role of HIV providers in delivering gender-affirming hormone therapy alongside antiretroviral treatment.

## Key findings

- Gender-affirming care could increase viral suppression rates in individuals with HIV.
- Combining hormone therapy with antiretroviral therapy may improve overall health outcomes.
- Such care has potential to reduce gender-related health disparities among transgender and nonbinary individuals.

## Abstract

Comprehensive healthcare for all includes gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender and nonbinary individuals. It is the unique privilege of HIV providers, who take care of a disproportionate number of transgender people, to provide gender-affirming hormone therapy along with antiretroviral therapy. It could increase viral suppression rates, increase overall health outcomes, and decrease gender health disparities.