Rethinking MSM, Trans* and other Categories in HIV Prevention

Amaya Perez-Brumer is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, USA. Richard Parker is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology at Columbia University, USA, and Director of the Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA). Peter Aggleton is Scientia Professor of Education and Health at UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Introduction: The trouble with ‘Categories’: Rethinking men who have sex with men, transgender and their equivalents in HIV prevention and health promotion 1. In the Name of Brevity: The Problem with Binary HIV Risk Categories 2. The conflation of gender and sex: Gaps and opportunities in HIV data among transgender women and MSM 3. Towards ‘reflexive epidemiology’: Conflation of cisgender male and transgender women sex workers and implications for global understandings of HIV prevalence 4. A global research synthesis of HIV and STI biobehavioral risks in female-to-male (FTM) transgender adults 5. ‘Men who use the Internet to seek sex with men’: Rethinking sexuality in the transnational context of HIV prevention 6. From Marginal to Marginalised: The Inclusion of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Global and National AIDS Programs and Policy 7. From MSM to heteroflexibilities: Non-exclusive straight male identities and their implications for HIV prevention and health promotion 8. What is in a label? Multiple meanings of ‘MSM’ among same-gender-loving Black men in Mississippi 9. Switching on after nine: Black gay-identified men’s perceptions of sexual identities and partnerships in South African towns 10. Intersections and evolution of ‘Butch-trans’ categories in Puerto Rico: Needs and barriers of an invisible population 11. ‘You should build yourself up as a whole product’: Transgender female identity in Lima, Peru 12. HIV Vulnerability and the Erasure of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 13. Gender identity, healthcare access, and risk reduction among Malaysia’s mak nyah community 14. The limitations of 'Black MSM' as a category: Why gender, sexuality, and desire still matter for social and biomedical HIV prevention methods 15. Sexual identities and sexual health within the Celtic nations: an exploratory study of men who have sex with men recruited through social media 16. "I am not a man": Trans-specific barriers and facilitators to PrEP acceptability among transgender women 17. ‘Proyecto Orgullo’, an HIV prevention, empowerment and community mobilisation intervention for gay men and transgender women in Callao/Lima, Peru