ATLANTA — Individual behavioral risk factors for HIV do not explain elevated HIV rates among black men who have sex with men, according to data from a recent CDC study. Emphasis on risk behavior ...

Interviews with 2241 men who have sex with men (MSM) without HIV showed high levels of HIV testing, but lower levels of preventative treatment in 2021. The CDC recently released the report, “HIV ...

Correlates of Risk Patterns and Race/Ethnicity Among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men. ... African American MSM exhibit the highest prevalence (CDC, 2005b) and incidence ...

The researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presented the data at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta in early December. Millet found no significant ...

Black men are at the greatest risk of receiving an HIV diagnosis of all populations in the U.S. Black men with HIV who have sex with men (MSM) are especially likely to not know they have the virus ...

For the study, researchers used data on diagnoses and death rates from 2009 to 2013 to project the lifetime risk of HIV diagnosis in the U.S. by sex, race and ethnicity, state, and HIV risk group.

The CDC said it would not change its long-standing recommendation on how frequently to test men who have sex with men for HIV. The agency has recommended since 2006 that U.S. providers offer HIV ...

A pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) regimen of tenofovir/emtricitabine taken before and after sex reduced the risk of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) by an average of 86 percent, according ...

Formulation of a Personalized HIV Risk Score for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation. Sexually Transmitted Diseases , 2017; 44 (1): 49 DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000535 Cite This Page : ...

Estimates of MSM by race are also not available, though the CDC estimated in February that half of black MSM and a quarter of Latino MSM will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. “To stop ...

The dialogue around race and heterosexual HIV transmission has been pretty brutal in its messages to and about black women. The alarming statistics about new HIV cases and AIDS deaths have led to ...

The disproportionate rates of HIV prevalence (CDC, 2005 a,b) and incidence (CDC, 2001) in African American MSM compared to other MSM is puzzling in light of their lower rate of MSM risk behavior.