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ArticleAIDS and behavior2015

Gender Expression and Risk of HIV Infection Among Black South African Men Who Have Sex with Men.

Theodorus G M Sandfort, Tim Lane, Curtis Dolezal, Vasu Reddy

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Article in AIDS and behavior, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Substance Use and HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Africa: A Systematic Review.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017
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  12. Uptake of antiretroviral treatment and viral suppression among men who have sex with men and transgender women in sub-Saharan Africa in an observational cohort study: HPTN 075.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Theodorus G M SandfortDivision of Gender, Sexuality and Health, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive Unit 15, New York, NY, 10032, USA. tgs2001@cumc.columbia.edu.
Tim LaneCenter for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Curtis DolezalDivision of Gender, Sexuality and Health, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive Unit 15, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Vasu ReddyHuman and Social Development Programme, Human Sciences Research Council and University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Funding

The Statistics, Data Science, and Data Management (SDM) CoreP30MH043520 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI MILTON L WAINBERG · 2003 to 2026
$48.2M
HIV Risk in African MSM is South African TownshipsR01MH083557 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI SANDFORT, THEODORUS G.M. · 2009 to 2012
$2.2M
NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH043520NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH43520NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083557
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To explore demographic, behavioral and psychosocial risk factors for HIV infection in South African MSM we recruited 480 MSM (aged 18 and 44 years) using respondent-driven sampling. Data were collected through individual computer-assisted face-to-face interviews. Participants were tested for HIV. RDS-adjusted HIV prevalence is 30.1 % (unadjusted 35.6 %). Few participants had ever engaged in both receptive and insertive anal sex; sex with women was frequently reported. Independent demographic and behavioral correlates of HIV infection include age, education, number of male sexual partners, ever having been forced to have sex, and ever having engaged in transactional sex; engagement in sex with women was a protective factor. Psychosocial risk factors independently associated with HIV infection were feminine identification, internalized homophobia, and hazardous drinking. Our findings confirm what has been found in other studies, but also suggest that the dynamics and context of sexual transmission among MSM in South Africa differ from those among MSM in Western countries.

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HIV InfectionsHomosexuality, MaleRisk-TakingSexual BehaviorAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMalePrevalenceSexual and Gender MinoritiesSouth AfricaYoung AdultFemininityHIV prevalenceMSMRisk factorsSouth Africa

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PMID25869555
PMCPMC4605836

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