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A woman who led the charge to shut down clinics in Ecuador that promised to help "cure" homosexuality, has been appointed the head of the South American country's health ministry.
To continue his pro-gay record, President Rafael Correa has announced that Carina Vance Mafla would join his cabinet as health minister. According to Blabbeando, the previous health minister stepped down after it was clear that he was unable to reconstruct the country's problematic national health care system.
LGBT organization Equal Rights Now (Igualdad de Derechos Ya!) commended Mafla's appointment and said they hoped she would "pay attention to the distribution of HIV medications, create guidelines to prevent discrimination against LGBT individuals at hospitals and health centers and take action on shutting down illegal religious "clinics" that promote 'cures' for homosexuality," Blabbeando reports.
A network, consisting of nearly 200 illegal so-called reparative clinics were revealed four years ago. Thirty were shut down by Correa's government in September 2011 after pressure activists including Mafla and from Change.org and AllOut.org petitions, directed at the former health minister David Chiriboga Allnutt.
