Open AccessHIV Diagnoses and Care Among Transgender Persons and Comparison With Men Who Have Sex With Men: New York City, 2006–2011
Author(s) -
Ellen W. Wiewel,
Lucia V. Torian,
Pooja Merchant,
Sarah Braunstein,
Colin W. Shepard
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2015.302974
Subject(s) - transgender , men who have sex with men , medicine , transgender women , odds ratio , confidence interval , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , hiv diagnosis , homosexuality , odds , family medicine , transgender person , demography , gerontology , viral load , antiretroviral therapy , psychology , syphilis , logistic regression , sociology , psychoanalysis
We measured HIV care outcomes of transgender persons, who have high HIV infection rates but are rarely distinguished from men who have sex with men (MSM) in HIV surveillance systems.