ArticlePsychology and sexuality2023
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men: (Dis)connection to Social, Sexual, and Health Networks.
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- Concept Analysis of Psychosocial Distress Among African American and Latine Men Who Have Sex With Men: Implications for HIV Care.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Review
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- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Support Networks of Gay and Bisexual Men with HIV in New York City.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on the HIV Treatment Outcomes Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Africa After the Implementation of a Differentiated Service Delivery Model: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Users' Experiences of PrEP Access, Sexual Behaviour, and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Welsh Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Analysis of Smartphone Text Data Related to mpox from a U.S. Sample of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men During the 2022 Outbreak.LGBT health · 2023Article
- Developing technology-based interventions for infectious diseases: ethical considerations for young sexual and gender minority people.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
- People Living with HIV's Worry That the COVID-19 Health Crisis Could Impact Long-Term HIV Care: Lessons From the French Context for Future Disease Epidemics.Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS CareArticle
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected HIV-positive cisgender men who have sex with men (MSM). Between May and June in 2020, we conducted one-on-one semi-structured qualitative interviews with 20 HIV-positive MSM aiming to describe their (dis)connection to social, sexual, and health networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. All participants relied on social support networks to manage pandemic-based distress, using computer-mediated communication as well as physical proximity. To connect to sexual networks, this sample described adaptations to their partner selection strategies, such as enumerating harm reduction approaches. To connect to health networks, participants depended on reassuring providers, resourceful case managers, telehealth, and streamlined access to their antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications. Nonetheless, stay-at-home recommendations reduced community connection, sexual activity, and healthcare access for many participants, and perceptions of these losses were shaped by psychosocial burdens (e.g., loneliness), structural burdens (e.g., environmental barriers, financial difficulties), and health-protective factors (e.g., hopeful outlook, adherence to a regular routine). The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated health-related issues for HIV-positive MSM. Given the ongoing COVID-19 mutations, community-based organizations, clinicians, and researchers might use these findings to modify HIV prevention and intervention efforts.
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