Importance of substance use and violence in psychosocial syndemics among women with and at-risk for HIV

A W. Batchelder, DW Lounsbury, A Palma, A Carrico… - AIDS care, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Women in the US continue to be affected by HIV through heterosexual contact. Sexual risk
behaviors among women have been associated with a syndemic, or a mutually reinforcing …

HIV sexual risk and syndemics among women in three urban areas in the United States: Analysis from HVTN 906

BA Koblin, S Grant, V Frye, H Superak, B Sanchez… - Journal of Urban …, 2015 - Springer
Limited data are available on the longitudinal occurrence of syndemic factors among women
at risk for HIV infection in the USA and how these factors relate to sexual risk over time …

Syndemic conditions and HIV transmission risk behavior among HIV-negative gay and bisexual men in a US national sample.

JT Parsons, BM Millar, RL Moody, TJ Starks… - Health …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: The syndemics framework has been used to explain the high rates of HIV
infection among gay and bisexual men. However, most studies have relied primarily on …

Sexual compulsivity, co-occurring psychosocial health problems, and HIV risk among gay and bisexual men: further evidence of a syndemic

JT Parsons, C Grov, SA Golub - American journal of …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We evaluated whether sexual compulsivity fits into a syndemic framework, in
which sexual compulsivity is one of a number of co-occurring psychosocial health problems …

Syndemic profiles and sexual minority men's HIV-risk behavior: a latent class analysis

JR Scheer, KA Clark, AJ Maiolatesi… - Archives of sexual …, 2021 - Springer
Syndemic theory posits that “syndemic conditions”(eg, alcohol misuse, polydrug use,
suicidality) co-occur among sexual minority men and influence HIV-risk behavior, namely …

“Outness” as a moderator of the association between syndemic conditions and HIV risk-taking behavior among men who have sex with men in Tijuana, Mexico

EV Pitpitan, LR Smith, D Goodman-Meza, K Torres… - AIDS and Behavior, 2016 - Springer
Multiple psychosocial conditions tend to co-occur and contribute to higher risk for HIV
among men who have sex with men (MSM), a phenomenon known as syndemics. Less is …

Syndemic factors associated with adult sexual HIV risk behaviors in a sample of Latino men who have sex with men in New York City

O Martinez, S Arreola, E Wu, M Muñoz-Laboy… - Drug and alcohol …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Syndemic theory has been proposed as a framework for understanding the role of
multiple risk factors driving the HIV epidemic among sexual and gender minority individuals …

Longitudinal effects of syndemics on HIV-positive sexual minority men's sexual health behaviors

A Harkness, SA Bainter, C O'Cleirigh, C Albright… - Archives of sexual …, 2019 - Springer
This study examined the longitudinal effects of co-occurring psychosocial concerns, or
syndemics, on HIV-positive sexual minority men's likelihood of engaging in serodiscordant …

Substance use disorders, violence, mental health, and HIV: differentiating a syndemic factor by gender and sexuality

K Tsuyuki, EV Pitpitan, MA Levi-Minzi, LA Urada… - AIDS and Behavior, 2017 - Springer
This paper measures syndemic substance use disorder, violence, and mental health and
compares the syndemic among HIV-infected heterosexual men, heterosexual women, and …

Syndemic conditions reinforcing disparities in HIV and other STIs in an urban sample of behaviorally bisexual Latino men

M Muñoz-Laboy, O Martinez, EC Levine… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2018 - Springer
Syndemics research has made great contributions to understanding sexual risk among
Latino men who have sex with men. However, such work often combines data for …