Transgender populations and HIV: unique risks, challenges and opportunities

Due to unique social, behavioural, structural and biological issues, transgender (TG) populations, especially TG women, are at high risk for HIV acquisition. This increased risk is multifactorial, due to differing psychosocial risk factors, poorer access to TG-specific healthcare, a higher likelihoo...

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Autores principales: Wansom, Tanyaporn, Guadamuz, Thomas E, Vasan, Sandhya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mediscript Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4965251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27482441
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description Due to unique social, behavioural, structural and biological issues, transgender (TG) populations, especially TG women, are at high risk for HIV acquisition. This increased risk is multifactorial, due to differing psychosocial risk factors, poorer access to TG-specific healthcare, a higher likelihood of using exogenous hormones or fillers without direct medical supervision, interactions between hormonal therapy and antiretroviral therapy, and direct effects of hormonal therapy on HIV acquisition and immune control. Further research is needed to elucidate these mechanisms of risk and to help design interventions to reduce HIV risk among transgender populations.
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spelling pubmed-49652512016-08-01 Transgender populations and HIV: unique risks, challenges and opportunities Wansom, Tanyaporn Guadamuz, Thomas E Vasan, Sandhya J Virus Erad Review Due to unique social, behavioural, structural and biological issues, transgender (TG) populations, especially TG women, are at high risk for HIV acquisition. This increased risk is multifactorial, due to differing psychosocial risk factors, poorer access to TG-specific healthcare, a higher likelihood of using exogenous hormones or fillers without direct medical supervision, interactions between hormonal therapy and antiretroviral therapy, and direct effects of hormonal therapy on HIV acquisition and immune control. Further research is needed to elucidate these mechanisms of risk and to help design interventions to reduce HIV risk among transgender populations. Mediscript Ltd 2016-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4965251/ /pubmed/27482441 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Virus Eradication published by Mediscript Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article published under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
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