HIV Prevalence, Risk Behavior, Hormone Use and Surgical History Among Transgender Persons in Thailand

摘要: While Male-to-female transgender persons (TG) are believed to often engage in sex work and have high HIV infection risk, little is known about demographics, surgical hormone use history, risk behaviors prevalence. Between March October 2005, 474 TG from Bangkok, Chiangmai, Phuket were surveyed using venue-day-time sampling. Of participants, overall prevalence was 13.5%. Most participants had completed at least secondary or vocational education (79.2%), gender self-identified as female (89.0%), received money, gifts valuables for (60.8%), reported (88.6%). Surgical history taken 325 participants. these, 68.6% some form of surgery 11.1% undergone penile-vaginal reconstructive surgery. In multivariate analysis, being recruited a park/street; older age, anal role identification “versatile” debut before age 13 independently associated with The development, implementation evaluation culturally appropriate sexual health interventions Thai urgently needed.