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Ivory Coast: help Akissi to access cancer tratment

Akissi is a lesbian from Ivory Coast in West Africa, living in Abidjan. She has been diagnosed with rectal cancer and has been able to undergo chemotherapy and one surgery, but she needs a second surgery to fully recover. Medical treatment in Ivory Coast is expensive. Akissi’s surgery costs 3 million CFA francs, or around CA$7,000 (around AU$7630, or 4,690€). Akissi has managed to raise part of the funds, but is still CA$5,000 short of the full cost of the operation. Because she is a lesbian, she is estranged from her family and does not have any support to help raise the additional funds.

Akissi est une lesbienne originaire de Côte d’Ivoire, en Afrique de l’Ouest, qui vit à Abidjan. Elle a été diagnostiquée avec un cancer du rectum et elle a pu suivre une chimiothérapie et subir une intervention chirurgicale, mais elle a besoin d’une seconde opération pour être complètement rétablie. Les traitements médicaux en Côte d’Ivoire sont coûteux. L’opération d’Akissi coûte 3 millions de francs CFA, soit environ CA$7000 dollars canadiens (environ AU$7630 dollars australiens, ou 4 690€). Akissi a réussi à réunir une partie des fonds, mais il lui manque l’équivalent de CA$5000 dollars canadiens pour pouvoir payer le prix de l’opération. Parce qu’elle est lesbienne, elle n’a plus de contact avec sa famille et elle n’a pas de soutien pour réunir le reste de l’argent.

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Canada: Lesbian seniors talk about isolation, safe housing concerns at Winnipeg summit

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Roberta Bishop says more talk with health-care providers is needed to ensure LGBT seniors have better experiences in personal care homes, for example. (Trevor Brine/CBC)

Bishop recalled the story of a woman who lost her spouse of 25 years.

The woman didn’t tell her friends in her knitting group that her partner was a female until the shooting at Pulse nightclub happened in Orlando in 2016, Bishop said.

“There’s an assumption that if you get old and you’re widowed, then you’ve lost a man,” Bishop said, explaining why the woman didn’t reveal her partner’s identity sooner.

Continue reading at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/finding-rainbows-summit-winnipeg-1.4391413 (Source)

Manitoba lesbians report homophobia in health-care system, study says

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“Many people talked about how health-care practitioners would not look them in the eye, seemed flustered by them or just generally communicated through body language that they were uncomfortable,” McPhail said.

Continue reading at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lgbt-lesbian-queer-trans-manitoba-winnipeg-health-care-1.3445825 (Source)