TY - JOUR
T1 - The conflation of gender and sex
T2 - Gaps and opportunities in HIV data among transgender women and MSM
AU - Poteat, Tonia
AU - German, Danielle
AU - Flynn, Colin
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge that the NHBS data collection was supported by contracts to The Johns Hopkins University from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and by cooperative agreements between the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additional support for this project was received from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions and the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. The analyses described here were supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research, an NIH-funded program, with Award Number 1P30AI094189.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2016/9/13
Y1 - 2016/9/13
N2 - Historically, HIV studies have conflated men who have sex with men (MSM) with transgender (trans) women, explicitly excluded trans individuals, or included sample sizes of trans people that are too small to reach meaningful conclusions. Despite the heavy burden of HIV among trans women, conflation of this population with MSM has limited the information available on the social and behavioural factors that increase HIV vulnerability among trans women and how these factors may differ from MSM. Using data sets from quantitative studies among MSM (n = 645) and trans women (n = 89), as well as qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 trans women in Baltimore, we explore what these data tell us about similarities and differences in HIV vulnerability between the two groups and where they leave gaps in our understanding. We conclude with implications for data collection and intervention development.
AB - Historically, HIV studies have conflated men who have sex with men (MSM) with transgender (trans) women, explicitly excluded trans individuals, or included sample sizes of trans people that are too small to reach meaningful conclusions. Despite the heavy burden of HIV among trans women, conflation of this population with MSM has limited the information available on the social and behavioural factors that increase HIV vulnerability among trans women and how these factors may differ from MSM. Using data sets from quantitative studies among MSM (n = 645) and trans women (n = 89), as well as qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 trans women in Baltimore, we explore what these data tell us about similarities and differences in HIV vulnerability between the two groups and where they leave gaps in our understanding. We conclude with implications for data collection and intervention development.
KW - HIV
KW - MSM
KW - intersectionality
KW - syndemic
KW - transgender women
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U2 - 10.1080/17441692.2015.1134615
DO - 10.1080/17441692.2015.1134615
M3 - Article
C2 - 26785751
AN - SCOPUS:84955123944
SN - 1744-1692
VL - 11
SP - 835
EP - 848
JO - Global public health
JF - Global public health
IS - 7-8
ER -