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Men Who Have Sex with Transgender Women: Challenges to Category-based HIV Prevention

Overview of attention for article published in AIDS and Behavior, August 2007
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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Title
Men Who Have Sex with Transgender Women: Challenges to Category-based HIV Prevention
Published in
AIDS and Behavior, August 2007
DOI 10.1007/s10461-007-9303-y
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Authors

Don Operario, Jennifer Burton, Kristen Underhill, Jae Sevelius

Abstract

Although transgender women are acknowledged as a priority population for HIV prevention, there is little knowledge on men who have sex with transgender women (MSTGWs). MSTGWs challenge conventional sexual orientation categories in public health and HIV prevention research, and warrant increased attention from the public health community. This paper used qualitative techniques to analyze how MSTGWs describe their sexual orientation identities, and to explore the correspondence between men's identities and sexual behaviors with transgender women. We conducted in-depth semi-structured individual interviews with 46 MSTGWs in San Francisco. We observed a diversity in the ways participants identified and explained their sexual orientation, and found no consistent patterns between how men described their sexual orientation identity versus their sexual behavior and attraction to transgender women. Findings from this qualitative study question the utility of category-based approaches to HIV prevention with MSTGWs and offer insights into developing HIV interventions for these men.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 5%
Canada 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
El Salvador 1 1%
Slovenia 1 1%
Unknown 80 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Researcher 13 15%
Student > Master 13 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 10%
Other 18 20%
Unknown 13 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 32%
Psychology 20 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 18 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2024.
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#3,640,330
of 25,468,708 outputs
Outputs from AIDS and Behavior
#532
of 3,690 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,957
of 79,887 outputs
Outputs of similar age from AIDS and Behavior
#7
of 25 outputs
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