Column: We need to bring sexual health care to places where people have sex
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. Baran is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, producer the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary"Circus of Books,” and creator of NYC INFERNO. Long, MD, MHS, is senior vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals, and executive director of the NYC Test & Treat Corpsn Saturday, June 29, 2019, a group of over 200 queer and trans folks were gathered in New York City, celebrating the city’s big World Pride weekend.
With this care-based ethos in mind, NYC Inferno, and all other queer sex-based venues in NYC, quickly shut down in July 2022, when Monkeypox cases climbed in the United States. The horror of MPV was almost unfathomable to many, including the queer community:When NYC Inferno relaunched on Sept.17, 2022, attendees were able to first make a stop at a white van parked near the venue, a mobile clinic offering Jynneos—the MPV vaccine. Jynneos, safe and effective, requires two doses for full immunity.
As executive leadership at NYC Health + Hospitals, a community organizer and queer scientist, and the creator and host of NYC Inferno, we are part of a team that provided free, subcutaneous Jynneos vaccine doses on site at commercial sex venues in NYC. Over this summer, MPV vaccination was severely limited by supply as cases rapidly rose.
, and the continued low and declining case counts even as sexual behaviors are returning to normal, highlight the power of bringing sexual healthcare directly to impacted communities and the places where they congregate.
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