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| | The Body: HIV Prevalence, Risk Behaviors, Health Care Use, and Mental Health Status of Transgender Persons: ... |
 | | Researchers hired three male-to-female transgender persons (African-American, Filipina, and Latina) and three female-to-male transgender persons (one Vietnamese and two white) to conduct the interviews, and each received 35 training sessions that included HIV counseling, interviewing, confidentiality, harm reduction, street outreach, suicide prevention, and referrals. |
 | | Eligible subjects (18 years or older who lived, worked or socialized in San Francisco; spoke English, Spanish, Vietnamese, or Tagalog; and stated that their primary gender was transgender, transsexual, bigender, transvestite, cross-dresser, intersexed, or the opposite sex of that at birth) were interviewed at one of eight community-based organizations. |
 | | Interviewers obtained information regarding subjects' sexual history (type, frequency, number of partners, gender of partners, and number of exchange partners), drug use (lifetime and recent, or in the last six months, and including hormone use or injection) and mental health (including emergency and outpatient visits, hospitalization, and suicide attempts). |
| www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/jun18_01/transgendered.html (679 words) |
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