MMWR Supplement on National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women—Seven Urban Areas, United States, 2019-2020
From SAGE Public Health Reports… The analyses presented in the MMWR Supplement “National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women—Seven Urban Areas, 2019-2020” highlight findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women (NHBS-Trans) project conducted during 2019-2020. Each article in the supplement presents findings related to unique aspects of the […]
Black Gay Men and Trans Women Are Well Protected by Injectable PrEP
From POZ.com… Long-acting injectable cabotegravir (Apretude) offered greater protection than daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) pills for Black gay and bisexual cisgender men and transgender women, but Black people still had higher HIV incidence rates compared with their white peers regardless of which type of PrEP they used, researchers reported at the 30th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections […]
What to know about HIV and transgender men
From Medical News Today online… Most scientific studies relating to HIV and transgender people focus on transgender women — research about HIV and transgender men is limited. According to research from 2018, this is because HIV prevalence is thought to be higher among transgender women: approximately 25–31%, compared with 0–3% among transgender men. Other research, from the University […]