Managed Healthcare Executive March 11, 2025
Prevalence varies by region and is impacted by social stigma, access to preventive medicine and a lack of HIV/AIDS education, according to new research published in Health Science Reports.
Approximately a quarter of transgender individuals worldwide have HIV/AIDS, according to the results of a recent global analysis of HIV/AIDS prevalence in transgender people, published recently in Health Science Reports.
“Trans people are 49 times more likely to be infected with HIV than adults in the general population worldwide,” lead author corresponding author Yousef Moradi, Ph.D., from the Research Institute for Health Development at the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in Iran, writes in the study. “Identifying the prevalence of HIV among trans people is essential to develop prevention strategies among...