Patients in sexual and gender minorities who have chronic inflammatory skin diseases often experience financial and non-financial barriers to care, according to a study.
“Prior work has found increased barriers to care among sexual and gender minority adults in the general population. Our study expands upon prior research by evaluating whether these findings are also present among sexual and gender minority adults with chronic skin disease,” John Barbieri, MD, MBA, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, director of the advanced acne therapeutics clinic at Brigham and Women’s