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The Transnational Cohort: global HIV epidemiology and prevention research for transwomen

Grant number: 16/20011-5
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research
Effective date (Start): January 02, 2017
Effective date (End): April 01, 2017
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Collective Health
Principal Investigator:Maria Amélia de Sousa Mascena Veras
Grantee:Maria Amélia de Sousa Mascena Veras
Host Investigator: William Connell Mc Farland
Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (FCMSCSP). Fundação Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Research place: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States  

Abstract

The Transnational Cohort (TC), enrolling participants in San Francisco and São Paulo, will test the hypotheses that social gender transition and lack of access to transgender-specific medical care cause or herald periods of elevated risk for HIV. The inferred period of high HIV incidence following youth coincides with many social gender transition events as well as successive hormonal therapy and surgical gender transition procedures. Our adult transwomen data show high sexual risk associated with breast augmentation, perhaps due to increased sexual partners as a result of greater gender conformity in appearance. The TC results will test the hypotheses that biomedical gender transition events cause or herald periods of elevated HIV risk or protective behaviors. Focusing in these events will help to identify targets for novel prevention interventions, for example, PrEP may be promoted for a limited time, or behavioral interventions can accompany medical and surgical procedures. The lack of transgender-specific medical care and the ability to socially transition may also cause high incidence of HIV and other adverse health effects. The Transnational Cohort will collect baseline information to map the positive and negative impact of social and biomedical transition events on HIV incidence, preventive behaviors, and other important health outcomes.

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