Open AccessMultilevel Risk Factors for Greater HIV Infection of Black Men who Have Sex With Men in New York City
Author(s) -
Alan Neaigus,
Kathleen H. Reilly,
Samuel M. Jenness,
Travis Wendel,
David Marshall,
Holly Hagan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000000144
Subject(s) - medicine , men who have sex with men , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , gerontology , virology , syphilis , sociology
There is a large and disproportionate burden of HIV in black men who have sex with men (MSM) which is not adequately explained by racial/ethnic differences in risk behaviors. However, social factors may account for this disparity in HIV infection. We examine the extent to which both individual risk behaviors and social factors reduce the effect of black race and may account for the disparity in HIV infection of black MSM.