Guidance on Messaging Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)

Issued on December 12, 2022 by AIRA

Guidance on Messaging Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
Public Health’s mission is to ensure all individuals have fair and equitable access to health care. Many populations experience health disparities, including people from some racial and ethnic minority groups, people with disabilities, women, people who are LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or other), people with limited English proficiency, and other groups.1 The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted aspects of health disparities within these communities. The immunization community has an opportunity to leverage the data from the pandemic to further understand and address health disparities.