Abstract Women in the United States are increasingly affected by HIV/AIDS, most commonly
through heterosexual contact. Engagement in HIV-related sexual risk behaviors has been …

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 …

Syndemic risk is an ecological construct, defined by co-occurring interdependent socio-
environmental, interpersonal and intrapersonal determinants. We posited syndemic risk to …

Black women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV with marked disparities in
HIV incidence, prevalence, and care outcomes. There is a critical need to explore the role of …

Background: Syndemic models have been used in previous studies exploring HIV-related
outcomes; however, these models do not fully consider intersecting psychosocial (eg …

This paper measures syndemic substance use disorder, violence, and mental health and
compares the syndemic among HIV-infected heterosexual men, heterosexual women, and …

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 …

Young men who have sex with men continue to be highly affected by HIV. To improve
understanding of the role that multiple co-occurring health issues (ie, syndemics) play in HIV …

Syndemics theory has been proposed as a framework for understanding the role of multiple
risk factors driving the HIV epidemic among gay and bisexual men. Previous studies have …

Syndemics, or comorbid and mutually reinforcing psychosocial problems, are associated
with increased HIV risk among men who have sex with men (MSM). Although the dynamic …