Open AccessThe Role of Commercial Sex Venues in the HIV Epidemic Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Author(s) -
William Reidy,
Steven M. Goodreau
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0b013e3181d62147
Subject(s) - men who have sex with men , demography , counterfactual thinking , transmission (telecommunications) , incidence (geometry) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , psychology , social psychology , virology , mathematics , computer science , sociology , telecommunications , geometry , syphilis
Commercial sex venues such as bathhouses and sex clubs have long been considered important facilitators of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in the United States. Recent probability surveys of commercial-sex-venue patrons in King County, WA that included data on behavior both within and outside these venues provide an empirical basis for the development of mathematical models to estimate the role that commercial sex venues play in the HIV epidemic.