Madrid, mar 21 ( EFE).-the State Federation of lesbians, Gais, Transexuals and bisexuals (FELGTB) has today denounced the “broad” ignorance on lesbian, bisexual sexual health and which have sexual relations with women, despite the fact that they are not immune to sexually transmitted diseases.
A report of this organization, made public today, this group is out of policies to address these pathologies.
The study carried out an analysis of the reasons of invisibility in the health field of emotional and sexual relations between women and the consequences that this entails in their sexual health.
Detailing the prevalence of STIs in this group, discussed the vulnerability and risk factors as well as the obstacles that are for an adequate prevention and sexual practices of risk and carried out various preventive recommendations.
According to the report, the sexual and emotional relationships of women who have sex with women and, therefore, the impact on them of infections “are invisible and invisible policies, consultations and health texts”.
The global prevalence of STDs among them is similar to which occurs in heterosexual women, between 10% and 20%.
The report says that “it is not true that lesbian women are immune to HIV”, because your risk varies depending on their behaviour, “without excluding, moreover, the fact that there are factors that may increase their vulnerability”.
Transmission of this virus in women who have sex with women is mainly produced, according to the report, through behaviors not homosexual as the injecting drug use, sharing needles and injection kits, and vaginal intercourse without protection with men who have sex with men or men who inject drugs.
According to the FELGTB, sexual transmission of HIV seems unusual among women, although there is a potential risk of transmission through menstrual blood and vaginal fluids and there are documented cases of this.
This Federation calls for a greater involvement of the universities and research centres in relation to the study of the sexual health of these women, as well as a greater commitment and responsibility in the promotion and protection of the sexual health of this group.
