More than 700,000 people — the estimated 3.5% of Malawi’s nearly 21 million people who identify as LGBTQ — face discrimination when seeking health care, even though the country’s constitution guarantees the right to health for all citizens. Malawi’s High Court recently upheld the country’s colonial-era sodomy law, which criminalizes gay sex. The website of the American radio program “The World” reports: Out of the closet, out of care: LGBTQ communities in Malawi struggle to access health care By Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman In Lilongwe, Malawi, 24-year-old Cleo Jones recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys during childhood. Jones came out as queer and nonbinary at the age of 15, a decision that was met with harsh rejection by their father and attacks and stigma from society, causing them to fall into periods of depression.