Category Archive for: ‘LGBTQ’
Perspectives: Testing for Couples
In several locations throughout the United States, couples can now receive HIV antibody counseling and testing together. What makes “couples” test counseling different is that couples in some locations can now receive their pre- and post-test counseling—including their test results—in the same room, at the …
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Couples Testing Campaign on Muni
A friend sent us a photo of our Couples Testing Campaign poster up in MUNI. So exciting to see our poster out in the world.
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Perspectives: Transgender Health
This issue of Perspectives examines how transgender people have been ignored in some key areas of HIV research and service provision. It also discusses how this trend can be reversed—in part through improved methods of data collection. We will review the available research on transgender …
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Perspectives: Partner Services
Every HIV test counseling session offers opportunities for HIV prevention and improved health. Counselors talk with HIV-negative clients about ways that clients want to reduce their chances of being exposed to HIV, and with clients who test preliminary positive, or confirmed positive, about linkages to …
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Perspectives Supplement: PCC—An Effective New Testing Intervention
HIV testing and counseling remains the cornerstone of HIV prevention in the United States. Because men who have sex with men represent 75 percent of new HIV diagnoses annually, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended annual HIV testing for MSM for many …
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Perspectives: Gay Men, HIV, and Sexual Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data that showed that men who have sex with men in the United States are 44 times more likely than other men to contract HIV, and at least 40 times more likely than women to contract …
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