Women Connected to at Risk Indian Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Unexplored Network.

Little is known about the women connected to Indian MSM and their impact on HIV risk. We surveyed 240 Indian MSM, who identified their social networks (n = 7,092). Women (n = 1,321) comprised 16.

A digital network approach to infer sex behavior in emerging HIV epidemics.

Purpose: Improve the ability to infer sex behaviors more accurately using network data.

Methods: A hybrid network analytic approach was utilized to integrate: (1) the plurality of reports from others tied to individual(s) of interest; and (2) structural features of the network generated from those ties. Network data was generated from digitally extracted cell-phone contact lists of a purposeful sample of 241 high-risk men in India.

Sex role segregation and mixing among men who have sex with men: implications for biomedical HIV prevention interventions.

Objective: Men who have sex with men (MSM) practice role segregation - insertive or receptive only sex positions instead of a versatile role - in several international settings where candidate biomedical HIV prevention interventions (e.g., circumcision, anal microbicide) will be tested.