Syndemic violence victimization, alcohol and drug use, and HIV transmission risk behavior among HIV-negative transgender women in India: A cross-sectional, population-based study.

Transgender women globally are disproportionately burdened by HIV. Co-occurring epidemics of adverse psychosocial exposures accelerate HIV sexual risk, including among transgender women; however, studies using additive models fail to examine synergies among psychosocial conditions that define a synd...

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Main Authors: Venkatesan Chakrapani, P V M Lakshmi, Peter A Newman, Jasvir Kaur, Alexander C Tsai, P P Vijin, Bhawani Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Shobini Rajan, Rajesh Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000437