STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: LONGITUDINAL HIV-RELATED HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN AND WOMEN (MSMW)

摘要

INTRODUCTIONMen who have sex with men and women (MSMW) have been shown in cross-sectional studies to suffer HIV-related health disparities above and beyond those found among men who have sex with men only (MSMO). We conducted a secondary data analysis over a 7-year time frame of participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), a longstanding prospective cohort study, to examine whether MSMW had persistently higher rates of depression symptoms, polydrug use, and (among HIV positive MSM) HIV viral load levels compared with MSMO.