HIV-Positive Transgender Women Going Without Medications, Basic Needs

Portrait of a doctor writing a prescription

Portrait of a doctor writing a prescription

A recent article in LGBT Health revealed transgender women living with HIV are less likely to adhere to anti-HIV medication regimens and achieve viral suppression rates, and are more likely than non-transgender men to be deprived of basic needs.

For the study, researchers from the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) accessed 2009 to 2011 data from the Medical Monitoring Project (MMP), an initiative which aims to measure the amount of HIV-infected adults as well as comparing non-transgender and transgender individuals’ demographics, behavior, health habits, and met needs.
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