HIV Risk and The Transgender Population
A study in Atlanta collected data among transgender sexworkers and found 68 percent of them were HIV infected.
San Francisco. One study surveyed transgender people seeking hormones in a public health setting. Of those, 15 percent were HIV infected. In a more recent study, 35 percent were found to be HIV positive.
What Contributes to the High HIV Incidence?
Because of disclosure fears and risks, identifying and finding the transgender community is difficult.
Often those who identify as transgender perceive their anatomical "parts" differently than the medical community would
Those identifying as transgender often experiment with their own sexual orientations and attractions
money for sex in an effort to support substance addictions or to make money for the purchase of necessary hormonal therapy.
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