TOPIC: Prevention & Education
OTHER KEYWORDS: Transgender (male-to-female), Women, Gay and Bisexual Men, San Francisco, CA
TITLE: HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nemoto T, Luke D, Mamo L, Ching, Patria J.HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females. AIDS Care. 1999; 11(3): 297-312.
SUMMARY
This article describes issues and concerns among six directors, one counselor and one consultant for transgender programs in San Francisco. The article demonstrates the relationships between HIV risk behaviors and social and cognitive factors among transgender females (male-to-female transgenders) in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females. Transgender females engaged in riskier behaviors than the other groups in terms of the number of sex partners in the past 30 days and the past six months, commercial sex activities, and having a steady sex partner who injected drugs. Adverse socioeconomic conditions and transgender-specific risk behaviors such as injecting hormones in relation to HIV risk behaviors must be targeted by future studies.