Title
Characterizing Men Who Have Sex with Transgender Women in Lima, Peru: Sexual Behavior and Partnership Profiles
Date Issued
01 March 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Long J.E.
Ulrich A.
White E.
Dasgupta S.
Cabello R.
Duerr A.
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
HIV prevalence is high among transgender women (TW), but how HIV is transmitted to this population is not well understood. This analysis aims to characterize sexual partners of TW (PTW) to understand how their behavior contributes to HIV risk among TW. We examined baseline data from TW, PTW, and men who have sex with men (MSM) from a treatment-as-prevention study in Lima, Peru. Individual and partnership characteristics were compared across groups, and Poisson regression was used to calculate prevalence ratios for associations between sexual concurrency and potential correlates. We found that 81% of PTW had no cisgender male partners. Prevalence of alcohol dependency, concurrency, and condomless anal intercourse was high and HIV testing was low compared to the other groups. Our results suggest that PTW are a distinct population from MSM and TW, engage in behavior associated with HIV transmission, and are likely not well reached by HIV prevention interventions.
Start page
914
End page
924
Volume
24
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica)
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85068933494
PubMed ID
Source
AIDS and Behavior
ISSN of the container
10907165
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus