Survey Evaluates Factors Contributing To High HIV Risk Among Transgender Women

MedPage Today (1/25, Kahn) reports, “Homelessness, violence, incarceration, and socioeconomic discrimination are linked to a high risk of HIV in transgender women, according to the CDC’s National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women (NHBS-Trans) survey.” Additionally, “employment discrimination also negatively impacted transgender women’s access to health insurance and gender-affirming care.” These survey results “appeared in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) supplement.”