Sex Reassignment Surgery Market size is set to exceed USD 968 Million by 2024; according to a new research study published by Global Market Insights, Inc. The transgender healthcare concern is rising and experiencing considerable surge in interest from several healthcare providers and policy makers. Presence of favorable government policies such as The Affordable Care Act in the country prevents most of the health insurers from discriminating transgenders from other country population. Hence, presence of favorable policies from the U.S. government for patients opting or undergoing gender reassignment surgeries will expand the business growth in the forthcoming years.

Increase in number of sex regret incidence among the people that have already undergone the gender reassignment surgical procedure will be one of the major market impeding factor. According to the recent survey it was observed that the number of patients that regretted sex change surgeries was high among the biologic males that underwent operations and the rate has been increasing in the last few years.

The number of transgender and intersex people opting for sex change surgical procedures across the globe is on rise, especially in the developed regions of United States. There has been a surge in the patients wanting to change their sex from male to female or vice versa, increasing nearly fourfold in the last decade boosting the demand for sex reassignment surgical procedures.

Male to female gender reassignment surgery market is estimated to witness considerable amount of growth at a CAGR of 25.7% over the forecast timeframe. In the U.S., male to female surgical procedures are on rise and increased from 1,380 surgical procedures in 2015 to around 1,876 in 2016. According to the surgeons, male to female surgical procedures are less complicated as compared to that of the female to male procedures hence, male to female gender reassignment surgery market will grow in the forthcoming years.

U.S. dominated the North America sex reassignment surgery market and valued at USD 97.23 million in 2017. According to The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), plastic surgeons in the U.S. performed more than 3,250 sex change operations in the year 2016, increasing by almost 19% as compared to the number of surgical procedures carried out previous year. Increase in insurance support along with rise in awareness and social acceptance will escalate the demand for sex change surgeries will only rise over the coming years.

UK sex reassignment surgery market is estimated to witness a sharp rise at a CAGR of 25.1% over the forecast period. The recent statistics have suggested that sex change surgeries have seen demand shoot up drastically over the past few years. Increase in number of surgical procedures in the country along with favorable polices provided by the NHS will lead to growing demand for sex change surgery.

Some of the leading players in the sex reassignment surgery market include Mount Sinai Centre for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS), Transgender Surgery Institute of Southern California, Rumercosmetics, Chettawut Plastic Surgery centre, Phuket International Aesthetic Centre (PIAC), Sava Perovic Foundation Surgery, Yeson Voice centre, Bupa Cromwell Hospital. These service providers focus on conducting complicated gender reassignment surgical procedure and provide necessary advanced care to the patients and hence attract more customers from various different regions.

Sex reassignment surgery market research report includes in-depth coverage of the industry with estimates & forecast in terms of revenue in USD million from 2013 to 2024, for the following segments:

Sex Reassignment Surgery Market by Gender transition

Male to female
Facial
Breast
Genital
Phallectomy
Orchiectomy
Vaginoplasty
Female to male
Facial
Chest
Genital
Hysterectomy
Phalloplasty
The above information is provided for the following regions/countries:

North America
U.S.
Canada
Europe
Germany
UK
France
Spain
Italy
Serbia
Asia Pacific
China
India
Japan
Australia
Thailand
Latin America
Brazil
Mexico
Middle East and Africa
South Africa
Saudi Arabia

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that of the estimated 1.1 million people in the United States who have the HIV infection, 1 in 7 don’t know their status.

That is especially true for youth ages 13 to 24 that make up 21% of the nearly 40,000 new HIV diagnoses made in 2017. More than 50% of youth who have HIV don’t know about their infection.

Only 9% of high school students report having been tested for HIV. Many people do not get tested because of lack of access to health care, fear and misperceptions about HIV risk and the testing process, and health care settings that lack HIV testing as a routine part of care.

As a nurse at a clinic that treats sexually transmitted infectious diseases, I frequently saw patients visit the clinic requesting HIV testing because their provider did not want to test them for HIV, or their provider said they did not offer HIV testing. We would also see young people at the clinic because they could not always be assured of confidentiality at their doctors’ offices.

Nurse practioners play a valuable role in testing of HIV in youth. A colleague and I recently published an article on HIV testing that showed nurse practitioners are less likely to perform HIV testing on people younger than 18 years of age. That may be in part because of issues related to patient confidentiality, consent, and linkage to care when a person tests positive.

Nurse practitioners are in a unique position to educate youth about HIV, refer youth to health services including HIV testing and perform HIV testing. But currently, nurse practitioners do not have full practice authority in all states. One way to increase HIV testing for all persons might be to include giving nurse practitioners the full authority under state regulations and practice acts to test for HIV.

Testing a major breakthrough
The development of testing technologies has been one of the two leading breakthroughs to the possibility of ending the HIV epidemic; the other is pharmacological interventions that effectively manage the disease and prevent transmission. Our nurse practitioner study concluded that nurse practitioners have an important role to increase HIV testing rates and could help put an end to HIV.

Nevertheless, many people don’t know if they should be tested, and so they are not.

Although it has been nearly 40 years since the beginning of the HIV crisis, the CDC reports that the infection continues to affect gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men of all races and ethnicities; black and Latino men and women; people who inject drugs; people aged 25-34; and people in the Southern U.S. disproportionately.

There are national recommendations and practice guidelines for nurse practitioners to test for HIV. However, the rate at which they screen for HIV is low, as my colleague Gale Spencer and I reported in our recent study.

We found that the strongest predictor of nurse practitioner HIV testing behavior was the practice setting’s social pressures that influence HIV testing. In other words, when office staff supported routine HIV screening, then nurse practitioners were more likely to test for HIV, even when it took more time.

Also, nurse practitioners believed that when “consent from a parent/guardian should be obtained before screening for HIV in a person younger than 18 years,” they were less likely to screen for HIV. This means that better policy and procedures are needed to help guide providers for testing those younger than 18. We believe this is pivotal, given that among young people between the ages 13 and 24 with HIV, nearly half are not aware of their status.

Testing guidelines for all

A blood test can reveal the presence of the HIV virus. Room’s Studio/Shutterstock.com
According to the CDC recommendations, everyone should be tested at least once between the ages of 13 and 64 as part of routine health care.

Also, if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, the CDC recommends that you should get tested as early as possible.

You should also get tested at least once a year if:

You are a sexually active gay or bisexual man
You have had sex with an HIV-positive partner
You have had more than one partner since your last HIV test
You have shared needles or “works” to inject drugs
You have exchanged sex for drugs or money
You have another sexually transmitted disease, hepatitis or tuberculosis
You have had sex with anyone who has done anything in this list, or with someone whose sexual history you do not know.
Also, the CDC recommends testing before having sex for the first time with a new partner. The agency also recommends that you talk about sexual and drug-use history.

In January, 2019, the World Health Organization made the proposal to declare 2020 the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife.” Nurses provide the essential link between the people of the community and the complex health care system. With their help, more youth – and others – can get tested.

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