{"id":13994,"date":"2025-05-19T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:45:53","slug":"mayako-pahichan-nepal-partners-with-ek-ek-paila-to-provide-inclusive-and-affordable-health-services-to-gsm-lgbti-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/mayako-pahichan-nepal-partners-with-ek-ek-paila-to-provide-inclusive-and-affordable-health-services-to-gsm-lgbti-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayako Pahichan Nepal Partners with Ek Ek Paila to Provide Inclusive and Affordable Health Services to GSM\/LGBTI Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu : MayaKo Pahichan Nepal is proud to announce a new partnership with Ek Ek Paila, a volunteer-driven health initiative dedicated to providing quality medical services in rural and underserved areas of Nepal. <\/p>\n<p>Through this collaboration, we are bringing essential and inclusive health care to gender and sexual minority (GSM\/LGBTI) individuals at highly subsidized rates.<\/p>\n<p>Starting immediately, members of the GSM\/LGBTI community can access a range of health services including general and specialist consultations, sexual health checkups, STD treatment, and HIV testing at Ek Ek Paila clinics. <\/p>\n<p>The cost of a general consultation is just NPR 150, while specialist consultations are available for NPR 300. Laboratory testing services are also provided at affordable prices.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership comes at a critical time. Following the abrupt funding cuts by U.S. President Trump, over 20 sexual health clinics catering to the GSM\/LGBTI community across Nepal have been forced to shut down. <\/p>\n<p>In this moment of crisis, Ek Ek Paila has opened its doors with compassion and solidarity, ensuring continued access to respectful, quality health care for vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<p>MayaKo Pahichan Nepal has deployed two dedicated volunteers at Ek Ek Paila clinics to provide targeted support for GSM\/LGBTI clients, assisting them in navigating services and ensuring their needs are met with dignity and care.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the entire team at Ek Ek Paila for their unwavering commitment to inclusive health care. Together, we strive to build a more equitable health system\u2014one step, or ek ek paila, at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Special gratitude to Dr Suman Thapa ji. <\/p>\n<p>Sunil Babu Pant<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\nMayako Pahichan Nepal<br \/>\n\u092e\u093e\u092f\u093e\u0915\u094b \u092a\u0939\u093f\u091a\u093e\u0928 \u0928\u0947\u092a\u093e\u0932 Ek Ek Paila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu : MayaKo Pahichan Nepal is proud to announce a new partnership with Ek Ek Paila, a volunteer-driven health initiative dedicated to providing quality medical services in rural and underserved areas of Nepal.<br \/>\nThrough this collaboration, we are bringing essential and inclusive health care to gender and sexual minority (GSM\/LGBTI) individuals at highly subsidized rates.<br \/>\nStarting immediately, members of the GSM\/LGBTI community can access a range of health services including general and specialist consultations, sexual health checkups, STD treatment, and HIV testing at Ek Ek Paila clinics.<br \/>\nThe cost of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,8,621,490,3,2065],"tags":[2237,502,2076,157],"class_list":["post-13994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-health","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","category-society","category-top-stories","tag-hiv-testing","tag-lgbti","tag-mayako-pahichan-nepal","tag-sunil-babu-pant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13994\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}