Despite recent social and legislative efforts to establish equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) community, attitudes that derive from sexual prejudice in health care providers are still of concern around the world.[1] Sexual prejudice in health care providers has several implications,[2-4] which include the stigmatisation and exclusion of LGBT individuals, the imposition of feelings of discomfort, poor communication, the disruption of the development of positive alliances with LGBT patients and the disregard of specific health and health care needs.[5-7] In addition, sexual prejudice results in less access to and underutilisation of health care services among the LGBT community, and leads to inequality of treatment and poorer quality of care.[5]
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