A5014132904- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Sex work and related issues
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Social Power and Status Dynamics
- African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Military Defense Systems Analysis
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Military Strategy and Technology
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
Friends Research Institute
2015-2024
Medical College of Wisconsin
2023-2024
University of California, Los Angeles
2018
University of California, Riverside
2011-2013
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
2011
California State University, Northridge
2005
Despite disproportionately high HIV prevalence rates and risk for acquisition transmission, trans women in the United States are less likely than other high-risk populations to be aware of their status or perceive infection as a serious health threat. Furthermore, concurrently unstable housing, few legal employment opportunities, lack social support, distrust service providers limit women's interest ability recruited by, retained within, linked into prevention care services. This article...
Men who have sex with men (MSM), and women (MSM/W) transgender (TGW) remain the populations most severely disproportionately impacted upon by HIV in Los Angeles County. Baseline data from community-based HIV-prevention programmes serving these were analysed to explore differences demographic characteristics, substance use sexual partnering between three groups. Despite high prevalence overall (MSM 34.7% versus MSM/W 16.1% TGW 21.9%, p < .001), there striking risk behaviours. Higher rates of...
Methamphetamine use has been associated with HIV transmission among men who have sex (MSM). However, providers hesitant to utilize post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in populations of stimulant users. This single-arm, open label pilot study sought demonstrate the safety, feasibility, and acceptability PEP combined drug abstinence intervention contingency management (CM) methamphetamine-using MSM. HIV-uninfected MSM reporting recent methamphetamine were recruited a CM intervention. Those...
Purpose: Transgender women have consistently reported elevated rates of lifetime physical and sexual abuse. This study examined the associations between and/or abuse symptoms psychological emotional distress among a sample urban, high-risk transgender women. Methods: From June 2005 through July 2012, 99 enrolled in Comprehensive Risk Counseling Services program Hollywood, CA. Seemingly unrelated regression equations (SURE) were used to simultaneously regress psychiatric symptom reports on...
Background: Methamphetamine-using men who have sex with (MSM) exhibit elevated rates of HIV and STI prevalence, indicating increased engagement in sexual risk behaviors. Objectives: This analysis elucidates associations between participant sociodemographics (i.e., age, racial/ethnic identity, educational attainment, status) behaviors, particularly substance use before/during sex, condomless anal intercourse (CAI) casual, anonymous, and/or exchange male partners. Methods: From March 2014...
ABSTRACT Men who have sex with men, men and women, transgender women are at high risk for HIV infection. This study seeks to clarify which known factors (partner type, location, serodiscordance, multiple partners, substance use during sex) contribute engagement in high-risk (unprotected receptive anal) each population. Data collected from June 2005 through 2008 indicate all three populations display different sexual profiles. The data suggest that HIV-prevention interventions should be...
The present study examined associations between methamphetamine use and social factors among men who have sex with (MSM) transgender women. Over a four-year period, 7,419 HIV outreach encounters were conducted MSM (n=6,243) women (n=1,176). Logistic negative binomial regressions estimated sociodemographics, incarceration history, housing status, use. Incarceration history was associated marginal or homelessness (AOR=3.4) increased likelihood (AOR = 6.00) rate (AIRR 3.57) of African...
Men who have sex with men (MSM) exhibit elevated rates of mental health and substance use disorder relative to their non-MSM male counterparts. Methamphetamine in particular has been associated both neuronal damage disorders among MSM, this study reports on the prevalence comorbidity DSM-5 a sample methamphetamine-using MSM. From March 2014 through January 2015, 286 MSM enrolled reduce methamphetamine sexual risk behaviors. At baseline, participants demonstrated high current major depressive...
Methamphetamine use is associated with increased HIV/STI infection among men who have sex (MSM). From March 2014 through January 2016, 286 methamphetamine-using MSM enrolled in a study to reduce methamphetamine and sexual risk behaviors. Participants were tested for HIV/STIs at baseline every 3 months 9 months. At baseline, 115 participants (40.2%) HIV–positive; three seroconverted (incidence = 2.6/100 person-years). Baseline testing diagnosed 77 STI cases (21 chlamydia, 18 gonorrhea, 38...
Background. Stimulant-using men who have sex with (MSM) are at high risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Contingency Management (CM) is a robust substance abuse intervention that provides voucher-based incentives for stimulant-use abstinence. Methods. We conducted randomized controlled trial CM postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) among stimulant-using MSM. Participants were to or noncontingent "yoked" control (NCYC) and observed prospectively. Generalized linear models used...