Title
Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: The Need for More Targeted Outreach to Men Who Also Have Sex With Cisgender Women
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Mayer M.E.
White E.
Montano M.A.
Cabello R.
Sanchez J.
Pasalar S.
Duerr A.
Asociación Civil Impacta Salud y Educación, Lima, Peru
Epicentro, Lima, Peru
Publisher(s)
Wolters Kluwer Health
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In Peru, as in the Americas overall, men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Most research focuses on practices between cisgender men, whereas many MSM report male and female partners, cisgender, transgender, or both. METHODS: Data for these analyses were from a treatment-as-prevention study in Lima (the Sabes study). We compared demographics and behaviors of MSM who reported cisgender women partners in the past 3 months (MSMW) and MSM who reported both cisgender and transgender women partners (MSMW-T) to MSM who reported only male partners (MSMO). We calculated HIV incidence in each group during 2-year follow-up. RESULTS: Compared with MSMO, MSMW and MSMW-T more often self-identify as heterosexual or bisexual and report insertive sex practices. MSMW reported condomless sex with cisgender women: vaginal (72%), anal sex (18%). One-third of MSMW reported condomless receptive anal sex with men in the past 3 months, with 24% of MSMW overall who reported both condomless receptive sex with men and condomless insertive vaginal or anal sex with cisgender women. Of these, 17% were HIV infected. HIV incidence did not differ significantly between groups. CONCLUSION: Most MSMW and MSMW-T report bisexual or heterosexual orientation and prefer insertive sex. MSMW and MSMW-T (47% and 29%, respectively) engage in receptive anal intercourse. In both groups, the majority who engaged in condomless receptive sex with men (76% MSMW, 85% MSMW-T) also engaged in condomless vaginal and/or anal sex with women, indicating need for intervention.
Start page
265
End page
270
Volume
86
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica)
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85102090481
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Sponsor(s)
Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number TL1 TR002318 (M.M.). Funding for the Sabes study was provided by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse using the R01 grant R01DA032106 (A.D.). The funders were not involved in the study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or in article writing.
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