PESHAWAR: Khyber Medical University in collaboration with Blue Veins, a women’s health advocacy group, will pursue a scientific research to identify and resolve health issues facing the transgender community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was inked on Wednesday, according to a press release.

KMU Vice-Chancellor Prof Ziaul Haq and Qamar Naseem, programme manager of Blue Veins, signed the MoU, which envisages mutual scientific and technical cooperation between both the parties to bring benefits to the transgender community.

Under the agreement, KMU and the advocacy group would jointly work for training of scientific and technical personnel for teaching, research and development in the field of transgender persons’ health and wellbeing.

KMU and the organisation would hold joint conferences, seminars and workshops, where lectures would be delivered on the topics related to research on transgender persons’ health and wellbeing.

The MoU elaborated that the varsity would provide scientific and technical support to health research projects related to transgender persons, and the advocacy group would provide logistic/management support for data collection when required.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2022