Identifying and characterizing trans women in the swiss HIV Cohort Study as an epidemiologically distinct risk group

Nguyen, Huyen; Hampel, Benjamin; Nuñez, David Garcia; Battegay, Manuel; Hachfeld, Anna; Bernasconi, Enos; Calmy, Alexandra; Cavassini, Matthias; Vernazza, Pietro; Fellay, Jacques; Rudolph, Hannes; Huber, Michael; Leuzinger, Karoline; Perreau, Matthieu; Scherrer, Alexandra; Ramette, Alban Nicolas; Yerly Ferrillo, Sabine; Günthard, Huldrych F; Kouyos, Roger D; Kusejko, Katharina

doi:10.1093/cid/ciab628

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Identifying and characterizing trans women in the swiss HIV Cohort Study as an epidemiologically distinct risk group

Published inClinical Infectious Diseases

Publication date2021

Abstract

As trans women are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, and are still understudied, we aimed to identify and characterize the trans women in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS).

Keywords

HIV
Trans
Epidemiology
Phylogeny
Public health

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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

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NGUYEN, Huyen et al. Identifying and characterizing trans women in the swiss HIV Cohort Study as an epidemiologically distinct risk group. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab628

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PID : unige:157917
DOI : 10.1093/cid/ciab628
PMID : 34282827

Journal ISSN1058-4838

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Identifying and characterizing trans women in the swiss HIV Cohort Study as an epidemiologically distinct risk group

As trans women are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, and are still understudied, we aimed to identify and characterize the trans women in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS).

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