Open AccessMethamphetamine Use, Syphilis, and Specific Online Sex Partner Meeting Venues Are Associated With HIV Status Among Urban Black Gay and Bisexual Men Who Have Sex Men
Author(s) -
Jacky M. Jennings,
Jessica Wagner,
Carla Tilchin,
Christina Schumacher,
Nicole Thornton,
Matthew M Hamill,
Anne Rompalo,
Sebastian Ruhs,
Sarah Rives,
Khalil G. Ghanem,
Carl Latkin
Publication year - 2021
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.0000000000001452
Subject(s) - syphilis , men who have sex with men , medicine , gonorrhea , chlamydia , demography , odds ratio , confidence interval , gynecology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family medicine , immunology , sociology
In the context of increasing syphilis rates, particularly among Black men who have sex men (MSM), the objectives were to determine the associations between methamphetamine (meth) use and syphilis and HIV positivity, and to identify sex partner meeting venues as potential intervention access points among Black MSM in a mid-Atlantic US city.