Background: Research on the syndemic health threats facing sexual minority men suggests
that the elevated risk of HIV among this population co-occurs with other psychosocial health …

The syndemics theory seeks to understand the effect of multiple synergic problems in
promoting poor health outcomes. To disentangle which and how syndemic conditions affect …

Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Bangkok may experience multiple psychosocial
health conditions, such as substance use, suicidality, and a history of sexual abuse. These …

Black men who have sex with men (MSM) engaged in sex work (BMSM-SW) experience
elevated HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence. Further, BMSM-SW have …

Research on men who have sex with men (MSM) has uncovered psychosocial factors
(syndemic indicators) that are associated additively with poor health. To test these relations …

Purpose Syndemic theory suggests that the convergence of social, environmental, and
ecological factors can interact to exacerbate behavioral health problems and are often …

Intimate partner violence is an underreported, stigmatized, and deleterious reality affecting a
greater proportion of gay and bisexual men than their heterosexual counterparts. Syndemic …

Objective We evaluated the relationship among syndemic conditions (defined as a cluster of
interconnected psychosocial health conditions), sexual behaviours and self-reported HIV …

The convergence of HIV, substance abuse (SA), and mental illness (MI) represents a
distinctive challenge to health care providers, policy makers, and researchers. Previous …

Objectives. We assessed whether multiple psychosocial factors are additive in their
relationship to sexual risk behavior and self-reported HIV status (ie, can be characterized as …