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Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital
Men who have sex with men who suffer stigmatization and discrimination become more fragile in facing life’s problems, such as the search for treatment in health services. In the present study, the social aspects related to discrimination and violence among men who have sex with men in Belém, Pará, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10094014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37046891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11070964 |
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author | Carneiro, Alexandre Mansuê Ferreira Rodrigues, Yan Corrêa Dolabela, Maria Fani Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Godim Costa Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Kendall, Carl Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Lima, Karla Valéria Batista |
author_facet | Carneiro, Alexandre Mansuê Ferreira Rodrigues, Yan Corrêa Dolabela, Maria Fani Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Godim Costa Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Kendall, Carl Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Lima, Karla Valéria Batista |
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description | Men who have sex with men who suffer stigmatization and discrimination become more fragile in facing life’s problems, such as the search for treatment in health services. In the present study, the social aspects related to discrimination and violence among men who have sex with men in Belém, Pará, are evaluated. Data were obtained by applying the respondent-driven sampling method to recruit 349 participants aged 18 years or older and who reported having had at least one sexual relationship with a man in the last 12 months. Data were collected from June to December 2016 in a semi-structured interview. Five seeds were initially recruited who applied RDS. The vast majority were between 18 and 35 years old, had completed elementary school but not high school, and were of mixed race. Almost a third lived in peripheral neighborhoods and were employed/self-employed. Additionally, most participants reported having suffered aggression/discrimination, more often in religious contexts, with family or in health services. The findings reported here may contribute to the development of public policies aimed at this population and indicate the need for new strategies to combat sexually transmitted infections, stigma, and discrimination suffered by this population. |
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spelling | pubmed-100940142023-04-13 Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital Carneiro, Alexandre Mansuê Ferreira Rodrigues, Yan Corrêa Dolabela, Maria Fani Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Godim Costa Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Kendall, Carl Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Lima, Karla Valéria Batista Healthcare (Basel) Article Men who have sex with men who suffer stigmatization and discrimination become more fragile in facing life’s problems, such as the search for treatment in health services. In the present study, the social aspects related to discrimination and violence among men who have sex with men in Belém, Pará, are evaluated. Data were obtained by applying the respondent-driven sampling method to recruit 349 participants aged 18 years or older and who reported having had at least one sexual relationship with a man in the last 12 months. Data were collected from June to December 2016 in a semi-structured interview. Five seeds were initially recruited who applied RDS. The vast majority were between 18 and 35 years old, had completed elementary school but not high school, and were of mixed race. Almost a third lived in peripheral neighborhoods and were employed/self-employed. Additionally, most participants reported having suffered aggression/discrimination, more often in religious contexts, with family or in health services. The findings reported here may contribute to the development of public policies aimed at this population and indicate the need for new strategies to combat sexually transmitted infections, stigma, and discrimination suffered by this population. MDPI 2023-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10094014/ /pubmed/37046891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11070964 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Carneiro, Alexandre Mansuê Ferreira Rodrigues, Yan Corrêa Dolabela, Maria Fani Lima, Luana Nepomuceno Godim Costa Guimarães, Ricardo José de Paula Souza Kendall, Carl Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Lima, Karla Valéria Batista Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title | Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title_full | Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title_fullStr | Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title_short | Social Experiences, Discrimination, and Violence among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Northern Brazilian Capital |
title_sort | social experiences, discrimination, and violence among men who have sex with men in a northern brazilian capital |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10094014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37046891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11070964 |
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