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Reconciling epidemiology and social justice in the public health discourse around the sexual networks of black men who have sex with men

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  • Matthews, D.D.
  • Smith, J.C.
  • Brown, A.L.
  • Malebranche, D.J.

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Several studies have implicated the sexual networks of Black men who have sex with men (MSM) as facilitating disproportionally high rates of new HIV infections within this community. Although structural disparities place these networks at heightened risk for infection, HIV prevention science continues to describe networks as the cause for HIV disparities, rather than an effect of structures that pattern infection. We explore the historical relationship between public health and Black MSM, arguing that the current articulation of Black MSM networks is too often incomplete and counterproductive. Public health can offer a counternarrative that reconciles epidemiology with the social justice that informs our discipline, and that is required for an effective response to the epidemic among Black MSM.

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  • Matthews, D.D. & Smith, J.C. & Brown, A.L. & Malebranche, D.J., 2016. "Reconciling epidemiology and social justice in the public health discourse around the sexual networks of black men who have sex with men," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 106(5), pages 808-814.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.303031_8
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303031
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    1. English, Devin & Carter, Joseph A. & Bowleg, Lisa & Malebranche, David J. & Talan, Ali J. & Rendina, H. Jonathon, 2020. "Intersectional social control: The roles of incarceration and police discrimination in psychological and HIV-related outcomes for Black sexual minority men," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 258(C).
    2. Laurens G. Van Sluytman & Carl Latkin & Laramie R. Smith, 2022. "Constructing Taxonomies: Identifying Distinctive Class of HIV Support and Risk Networks among People Who Use Drugs (PWID) and Their Network Members in the HPTN 037 Randomized Controlled Trial," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(12), pages 1-14, June.
    3. Melissa M. Barnhill & Joseph G. L. Lee & Ann P. Rafferty, 2017. "Health Inequities among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults in North Carolina, 2011–2014," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-10, July.

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