Sexual Health Cultural Competence Resources

For Healthcare Providers and Organizations That Serve Culturally Diverse Populations

Sexual Health Cultural Competence plays a critical role in providing appropriate sexual health services meeting the social, cultural, and linguistic needs of culturally diverse populations. Implementation of policies and practices to increase cultural competence significantly improves patient healthcare experiences and contributes toward improving the health of the entire population of the United States. This page contains useful tools and resources for those providing health services to these populations.

Resources from the National Center for Cultural Competence

Cultural Competence: It All Starts at the Front Desk

This article includes specific information on organizational policies and procedures, workforce development, and quality improvement.

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Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency - Self-Assessment Checklist

This tool provides concrete examples of beliefs, attitudes, values and practices which foster cultural and linguistic competence.

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A Guide to Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Promotion Materials

This resource offers guidance for assuring that health promotion materials reflect the principles and practices of cultural and linguistic competence.

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Conscious and Unconscious Biases in Health Care

This online course covers conscious and unconscious biases in health care and their impact on people who are disproportionately affected by disparities.

A Guide to Planning and Implementing Cultural Competence Organizational Self-Assessment

This resource offers guidance for planning and implementing cultural competence organizational self-assessment.

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Working with Linguistically Diverse Populations - FAQs

This website provides answers to questions about how to implement language access.

Other Resources

Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches

This resource from the Commonwealth Fund provides a framework for discussion and examples of practical approaches to implement culturally competent interventions and improve the quality of health care.

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Culture, Language, and Health Literacy

Health Resources & Services Administration webpage with resources developed by the National Center for Cultural Competence and resources on specific subtopics such as HIV/AIDS, maternal and childcare, limited English proficiency and plain language.

A Practical Guide to Implementing the National CLAS Standards

This HIV Medicine Association document is to help organizations working with immigrants living with HIV or TB to implement the National CLAS Standards and improve health equity.

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Access to Prevention and Healthcare Services for Immigrants with Communicable Diseases

This HIV Medicine Association resource is for organizations working with immigrants living with HIV or TB.

Addressing Stigma: A Blueprint for Improving HIV/STD Prevention and Care Outcomes for Black and Latino Gay Men

This National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) document offers recommendations to reduce public health stigma among these populations.

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Overcoming Issues & Challenges in Serving the Sexual Health Needs of Latino Immigrants in the United States

This article summarizes literature on sexual health among Latino immigrants and presents recommendations to address challenges affecting this population.

Page last reviewed: March 2, 2022

Content source: Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention