Preventing HIV in transgender people
"The ' Transgender supplement' has been developed to fill critical gaps in information on the state of the HIV epidemic among transgender individuals, to discuss opportunities for culturally-tailored prevention interventions, and to inform the way forward in responding to the unique public health challenge in this often marginalized and underserved population," according to Guest Editors Kenneth Mayer of Fenway Health, Boston; Beatriz Grinsztejn of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro; and Wafaa M. El-Sadr of Columbia University, New York. The full contents of the special issue are freely available on the JAIDS website Experts Seek to Build Evidence for Effective HIV Prevention in Transgender People Although transgender individuals account for less than one percent of the population, they have a "distinctively increased" burden of HIV disease . Recent estimates suggest that the worldwide prevalence of HIV among transgender women is 19 percent--with...