Open AccessStuck in the Middle
Author(s) -
M. Reuel Friedman,
Ron Stall,
Anthony J. Silvestre,
Brian Mustanski,
Steven Shoptaw,
Pamela J. Surkan,
Charles R. Rinaldo,
Michael Plankey
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000000143
Subject(s) - multicenter aids cohort study , medicine , psychosocial , demography , men who have sex with men , viral load , cohort , seroconversion , cohort study , ethnic group , young adult , gerontology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , psychiatry , antiretroviral therapy , syphilis , sociology , anthropology
Men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) have been shown in cross-sectional studies to suffer HIV-related health disparities above and beyond those found among men who have sex with men only (MSMO). We conducted a secondary data analysis over a 7-year time frame of participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, a long-standing prospective cohort study, to examine whether MSMW had persistently higher rates of depression symptoms, polydrug use, and (among HIV-positive men who have sex with men) HIV viral load levels compared with MSMO.