Transgender and HIV: Risks, Prevention, and Care

Contents * About the Editors * Contributors * Foreword * Preface * Chapter 1. Sex, Drugs, and the Culture of Travestismo in Rio de Janeiro * Methods * Findings * Discussion * Chapter 2. Transgenders, HIV/AIDS, and Substance Abuse: From Risk Group to Group Prevention * Transgenders: Understandings and Misunderstandings * HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Risks * Conceptualizing Risk * Beyond Individual and Psychological Risk: Historical and Contemporary Risk Structures * Toward Group Prevention * Chapter 3. Transgender Health and Social Service Needs in the Context of HIV Risk * Introduction * Research Methods * Health and Social Service Needs * Problems in Obtaining Appropriate Services * Implications and Recommendations for HIV Prevention * Chapter 4. HIV Risk Behaviors of Male-to-Female Transgenders in a Community-Based Harm Reduction Program * Overview of the Community-Based Program * Method * Conclusion and Discussion * Chapter 5. HIV Prevention and Health Service Needs of the Transgender Community in San Francisco * Background * Methods * Results * Discussion of Findings * Limitations and Conclusions * Chapter 6. HIV/AIDS and Female-to-Male Transsexuals and Transvestites: Results from a Needs Assessment in Quebec * Introduction * Background of the Project * Methods * Results * Conclusions * Chapter 7. Education and Soul-Searching: The Enterprise HIV Prevention Group * Introduction * A Brief History of Enterprise * Paradigm Shifts in HIV Prevention * The Enterprise Prevention Workshops * Key Issues form Workshop Participants * Conclusion * Chapter 8. Transgender HIV Prevention: Community Involvement and Empowerment * Introduction * Planning * Needs Assessment * Recruitment * Intervention * Evaluation * Celebration * Replication * Discussion * Recommendations for Future Collaboration * Conclusion * Chapter 9. Sex, Truth, and Videotape: HIV Prevention at the Gender Identity Project in New York City * Introduction * Program Participants * Peer-Driven Assessment of Needs * Prevention Strategies * Training, Advocacy, and Empowerment * Chapter 10. Sex Reassignment Surgery in HIV-Positive Transsexuals * Introduction * Review of Literature * Findings * Conclusion * Chapter 11. Guidelines for Selecting HIV-Positive Patients for Genital Reconstructive Surgery * Introduction * Guidelines * My Personal Experience * Conclusions * Index * Reference Notes Included