High HIV Incidence Among Young and Racial/Ethnic Minority Transgender Women in San Francisco: Results of a Longitudinal Cohort Study

Willi McFarland^{1

2}, Paul Wesson², Caitlin Turner^{1

2}, Jess Lin¹, Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras³, Hongjing Yan⁴, Henry F Raymond⁵, Erin C Wilson^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Public Health Research, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³ Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴ Section of AIDS Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China.
⁵ School of Public Health, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

Willi McFarland et al. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2020.

. 2020 May 1;84(1):e7-e10.

doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002315.

Willi McFarland^{1

2}, Paul Wesson², Caitlin Turner^{1

2}, Jess Lin¹, Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras³, Hongjing Yan⁴, Henry F Raymond⁵, Erin C Wilson^{1

2}

¹ Center for Public Health Research, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³ Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
⁴ Section of AIDS Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China.
⁵ School of Public Health, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

No abstract available

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