Puerto Vallarta News

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Homophobia and ignorance in Mexico’s health system are causing a rise in Monkeypox

In Mexico's health system, which is usually stigmatizing and discriminatory towards people from the LGBTTTI community, monkeypox infections have increased division, in addition to a lack of protocols to deal with cases and a lack of vaccines to combat them.

Even activists have expressed indignation at the singling out of sexual practices and sexual orientation when they have monkeypox, since they claim that the entire stigma of HIV is being repeated, as it was since the early 1980s.

According to a publication by Emeequis, an activist denounced that "there is absolutely no strategy on . . .

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