Last Change:

08/14/2025

Procedures Manual for Comprehensive Health Care of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women

Original names of the law: Manual de Procedimientos para la Atención Integral en salud de los Hombres que tienen sexo con Hombres (HSH) y las Personas Trans Femeninas

Year: 2018

Type: Domestic policy

Rights Category: Health

Description

This Procedures Manual is intended for health personnel who provide comprehensive health care services to trans people and men who have sex with men as well as the security, administrative and technical personnel who support such care in the in the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social.


It presents health interventions that are developed fundamentally at the first and second levels of care, including the following and second level of care, including referrals to the third level of care for those interventions that require it.
Everything this Manual proposes in terms of humanized treatment and health services without stigma and discrimination applies to all health interventions.
 

Selected provisions
6. General objective

Establecer un marco teórico y operativo, que guíe al personal de salud de la CCSS sobre cómo
brindar atención integral en salud, sin estigma y discriminación, para los Hombres que tienen
sexo con Hombres (HSH) y las personas trans femeninas.