Involvement of African men and transgender women who have sex with men in HIV research: progress, but much more must be done

Trevor A Crowell^{1

2}, Patricia E Fast^{3

4}, Linda-Gail Bekker⁵, Eduard J Sanders^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
² Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁵ Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁷ Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33000908
PMCID: PMC7527757
DOI: 10.1002/jia2.25596

Editorial

Involvement of African men and transgender women who have sex with men in HIV research: progress, but much more must be done

Trevor A Crowell et al. J Int AIDS Soc. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;23 Suppl 6(Suppl 6):e25596.

doi: 10.1002/jia2.25596.

Authors

Trevor A Crowell^{1

2}, Patricia E Fast^{3

4}, Linda-Gail Bekker⁵, Eduard J Sanders^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
² Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁵ Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
⁷ Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

PMID: 33000908
PMCID: PMC7527757
DOI: 10.1002/jia2.25596

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Keywords: Africa; biomedical research; implementation science; key and vulnerable populations; men who have sex with men; population health management; sexual and gender minorities; sexual behaviour; transgender people; transgender women.

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