Transgender and HIV: risks, prevention, and care

by Bockting, Walter Gaska, Jennifer M. Kirk, Sheila

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Title Statements

Full title :Transgender and HIV : risks, prevention, and care / Walter Bockting, Sheila Kirk, editors ; cover design by Jennifer M. Gaska.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (206 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315786230, 1315786230
oclc:ocn882231702
LC Classification:RA644.A25
Dewey Decimal:616.97/92/00866

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Sex, Drugs, and the Culture of Travestismo in Rio de Janeiro -- Methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Chapter 2. Transgenders, HIV/AIDS, and Substance Abuse: From Risk Group to Group Prevention -- Transgenders: Understandings and Misunderstandings -- HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Risks -- Conceptualizing Risk -- Beyond Individual and Psychological Risk: Historical and Contemporary Risk Structures

Toward Group PreventionChapter 3. Transgender Health and Social Service Needs in the Context of HIV Risk -- Introduction -- Research Methods -- Health and Social Service Needs -- Problems in Obtaining Appropriate Services -- Implications and Recommendations for HIV Prevention -- Chapter 4. HIV Risk Behaviors of Male-to-Female Transgenders in a Community-Based Harm Reduction Program -- Overview of the Community-Based Program -- Method -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Chapter 5. HIV Prevention and Health Service Needs of the Transgender Community in San Francisco

BackgroundMethods -- Results -- Discussion of Findings -- Limitations a…