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General Challenges
     
           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Moving beyond "the Down Low": A critical analysis of terminology guiding HIV prevention efforts for
African American men who have secretive sex with men.
Saleh LD, Operario D.
 Soc Sci Med. 2008 Nov 8.
 Abstract
 
Bisexually Active Black Men in the United States and HIV: Acknowledging More Than the "Down Low".
Malebranche DJ.  
Arch Sex Behav. 2008 May 28.
Abstract
 
A WEEK IN REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
"...And Then There was the Down Low": Introduction to Black and Latino Male Bisexualities.
Sandfort TG, Dodge B.
Arch Sex Behav. 2008 May 28.
 Abstract
 

Beyond the Down Low: Sexual Risk, Protection, and Disclosure Among At-Risk Black Men Who
Have Sex with Both Men and Women  (MSMW).
Dodge B, Jeffries WL 4th, Sandfort TG. 
Arch Sex Behav. 2008 May 30.
Abstract
 
Circumcision Status and HIV Infection Among Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex With
Men in 3 US Cities.
Millett GA, Ding H, Lauby J, et al  
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007 Dec 15;46(5):643-650.
Abstract
 
Same race and older partner selection may explain higher HIV prevalence among black
men who have sex with men.
Berry M, Raymond HF, McFarland W.  
AIDS. 2007 Nov 12;21(17):2349-50.
 Abstract
 
Explaining disparities in HIV infection among black and white men who have sex with men:
a meta-analysis of HIV risk behaviors.
Millett GA, Flores SA, Peterson JL, Bakeman R.
 AIDS. 2007 Oct 1;21(15):2083-91.
 Abstract
 
Our lives: An examination of sexual health issues using photovoice by non-gay identified
African American men who have sex with men.
Mamary E, McCright J, Roe K. 
Cult Health Sex. 2007 Jul-Aug;9(4):359-70.
 Abstract
 
Minority Stress and Sexual Problems among African-American Gay and Bisexual Men.
Zamboni BD, Crawford I.  
Arch Sex Behav. 2006 Nov 16;
 Abstract
 
Internet Chat Rooms: Connecting With a New Generation of Young Men of Color at Risk
for HIV Infection Who Have Sex With Other Men.
Fields SD, Wharton MJ, Marrero AI, et al
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2006 Nov-Dec;17(6):53-60.
 Abstract
 
Disclosure Decisions of Rural African American Men Living With HIV Disease.
Gaskins SW.
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2006 Nov-Dec;17(6):38-46
 Abstract
 
Self-Identification as "Down Low" Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) from
12 US Cities.
Wolitski RJ, Jones KT, Wasserman JL, Smith JC. 
AIDS Behav. 2006 May 12;
 Abstract
 
Race and sexual identity: perceptions about medical culture and healthcare among
Black men who have sex with men.
Malebranche DJ, Peterson JL, Fullilove RE, Stackhouse RW.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2004 Jan;96(1):97-107.
 Abstract

The influence of dual-identity development on the psychosocial functioning of
african-american gay and bisexual men.
Crawford I, Allison KW, Zamboni BD, Soto T.
J Sex Res 2002 May;39(2):179-89
 Abstract
 
Differences in disclosure of sexuality among African American and White gay/
bisexual men: implications for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Kennamer JD, Honnold J, Bradford J, Hendricks M.
AIDS Educ Prev 2000 Dec;12(6):519-31
 Abstract
 
Finding the "community" in community-level HIV/AIDS interventions: formative
research with young African American men who have sex with men.
Kraft JM, Beeker C, Stokes JP, et al
Health Educ Behav 2000 Aug;27(4):430-41
 Abstract
 

 
    Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
  
 
Social context of same sex disclosure and sexual risk behavior among behaviorally bisexual
Black men
D Malebranche, K Arriola
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
Involvement with street violence, incarceration, and sex while incarcerated among African-American men
who have sex with men (MSM) and non-MSM enrolled at urban health clinics
S Welles, JA Rich, E Reed, et al
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
Behavior, identity and attraction discordance among African-American men who have sex with men
AD Sanders, Dominicus W.
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
An HIV risk-reduction intervention for African American MSMW: The inclusion of culture
JK Williams, NT Harawa, HC Ramamurthi 
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
Role of Preventive Healthcare in HIV Prevention among Young African American Men who have
Sex with Men
C Dorell, A Oster, GA PE. Thomas, et al
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
Gender role conflict, Black racial identity and sexual risk behavior among Black men who have sex
with men (MSM)
D Malebranche
 (136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
A community-based social marketing campaign to increase HIV testing and test retrieval among
MSM African-American youth
J Messenger Heilbronner
136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
Exploring HIV Prevention Communication and HIV Testing Among Black MSM in New York City:
From Pilot Study to Major Study
J Nanin, T Osubu, D Powell, et al
(136th APHA)
 Abstract
 
POWERPOINT POSTER PRESENTATION
Power and prejudice: the perceptions of people who provide services to non-gay-identifying
African American men who have sex with men
H Ramamurthi
(XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Poster Presentation
 
Social factors associated with HIV testing practices among black men who have sex with men
in the United States
 D. Malebranche
 (XVII International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Perceptions of condom fit and feel and condom access among African-American men who
have sex with men
CM. Fisher, M Reece,D Herbenick, B Dodge
 (135 APHA)
Abstract
 
Our Lives Photovoice: Using digital photography to explore sexual health of non-gay identified
African American men who have sex with men
E Mamary, J McCright, KT Roet, S DiVerde
 (135 APHA)
Abstract
 
Black MSM: Implementing health marketing techniques as a recruitment method for
HIV prevention and care services
CD Whitfield
 (135 APHA)
Abstract
 
Double jeopardy with men's sexual behavior and drug use: Down low and high
E Costenbader, WA Zule, C Coomes, et al
 (135 APHA)
Abstract
 
Confronting internalized oppression as a barrier to self-care among Black MSM: The RISE
intervention
K Castner
 (135 APHA)
Abstract
 
CEOs: Training youth as community researchers to study social networks and HIV risk
behaviors among YMSM of Color  
M Munoz-Laboy, M De la Cruz,  A Holman, B Casenave
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Reaching Black men who have sex with men (MSM) who do not identify as gay for
HIV prevention and services
AB LaPollo, L Bond, L Carson, et al
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Recruitment strategies for reaching non-gay identified African American MSM for HIV
prevention and outreach
J McCright, E Mamary
(134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Social Context of Bisexual Behavior Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
in Atlanta, Georgia
GD Malebranche, K Arriola
 (134 APHA)
 Abstract
 
An exploration of HIV risk among non-gay identified African American MSM
E Mamary, J McCright, A LaGoy
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Black men who have sex with men (MSM): standing at the crossroad of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in the Unites States
Moore T.E.M.
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Drug-using behavior among non-gay identified MSM
Costenbader E., Zule W., Coomes C
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Ensuring high rate of return for confirmatory HIV results among Black and Latino men who
have sex with men (MSM) through counselor/client relationship building
De Los Reyes A., Kummel P.
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Internet outreach and beyond: Getting real about HIV to a new generation of Black MSM
SD Fields,  A Camacho,  K Pannell, et al
(133 APHA)
Abstract 
 
Legacy Denied: Black Gay Men, AIDS and The Church
R Miller
 (133 APHA)
Abstract 
 
The "down low" phenomena: An emerging risk culture in the United States
Barnshaw J.
 (3rd IAC)
Abstract 
 
Demystifying the "Down Low": The reality of black masculinity, sexual identity,
and HIV among black men who have sex with men  
DJ Malebranche,  L Bryant,
(132 APHA)
Abstract 
Risk Behaviors
     
          Internet Documents
 
  A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
FULL TEXT PDF DOCUMENT
 Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
 NASTAD 
Black MSM Issue Brief No.2 February 2007
Issue Brief
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Sexual Risk Behaviors of HIV-Positive, HIV-Negative, and Serostatus-Unknown Black Men Who
Have Sex with Men and Women.
Lauby JL, Millett GA, Lapollo AB, et al  
Arch Sex Behav. 2008 Jun 3.
 Abstract
 
A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Risk Characteristics of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men |
or with Men and Women.
Wheeler DP, Lauby JL, Liu KL, et al
Arch Sex Behav. 2008 May 29.
 Abstract

Perceived condom norms and HIV risks among social and sexual networks of young
African American men who have sex with men.
Peterson JL, Rothenberg R, Kraft JM, et al
Health Educ Res. 2008 Feb 16
 Abstract
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Differences in HIV Risk Behaviors Among Black and White Men Who Have Sex
With Men.
Crosby R, Holtgrave DR, Stall R, et al 
Sex Transm Dis. 2007 Jun 8;
Abstract
 
Nonsupportive Peer Norms and Incarceration as HIV Risk Correlates for Young
Black Men who have Sex with Men.
Jones KT, Johnson WD, Wheeler DP, et al 
AIDS Behav. 2007 Apr 10;
 Abstract
 
Correlates of Risk Patterns and Race/Ethnicity among HIV-Positive Men who have
Sex with Men.
O'leary A, Fisher HH, Purcell DW, et al 
AIDS Behav. 2007 Feb 13
 Abstract
 
Perceptions Towards Condom Use, Sexual Activity, and HIV Disclosure among
HIV-Positive |African American Men Who Have Sex with Men: Implications for
Heterosexual Transmission.
Harawa NT, Williams JK, Ramamurthi HC, Bingham TA. 
J Urban Health. 2006 May 31;
Abstract
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Why Are Black Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) at Greater Risk for HIV I
nfection Than Other MSM?
Millett GA, Peterson JL, Wolitski RJ, Stall R.
Am J Public Health. 2006 May 2;
 Abstract
 
Focusing "down low": bisexual black men, HIV risk and heterosexual transmission.
Millett G, Malebranche D, Mason B, Spikes P.
J Natl Med Assoc. 2005 Jul;97(7 Suppl):52S-59S.
 Abstract
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Predictors of risky sexual behavior among young African American men who have sex with men.
Hart T, Peterson JL
Am J Public Health. 2004 Jul;94(7):1122-4.
 Abstract
 
Racial disparities in sexual risk behaviors and drug use among older gay/bisexual
and heterosexual men living with HIV/AIDS.
Siegel K, Schrimshaw EW, Karus D.    
 J Natl Med Assoc. 2004 Feb;96(2):215-23.|
 Abstract
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Unrecognized HIV infection, risk behaviors, and perceptions of risk among young
black men who have sex with men--six U.S. cities, 1994-1998.
CDC
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002 Aug 23;51(33):733-6
Paper
 
Reduction of high-risk behaviors among incarcerated youths: a challenge in
prevention.
Gary F, Yarandi H, Verbosky S, et al
J Natl Black Nurses Assoc 2000 Jan;11(1):36-42
 Abstract
 
 

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

 
Effects of stigma on HIV sexual risk behaviors among African American and Latino men who have sex
with men, New York City, 2004
 T. Finlayson, T. Sanchez, L. Dean, et al
 (XVII  International AIDS Conference)
Abstract
 
The impact of gender role conflict and black racial identification on the sexual risk behaviors of Black men
who have sex with men in the United States
 D. Malebranche
 (XVII  International AIDS Conference)
Abstract
 
Where and why men have sex: Contexts of HIV risk among Black MSM  
J Lauby, N Feliz, C Washington
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Drug-using behavior among non-gay identified MSM
Costenbader E., Zule W., Coomes C., et al
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
HIV risk and prevention among at-risk African-American and Latino men who have sex
with both men and women (MSMW)
B Dodge, T Sandfort, MA Munoz-Laboy, et al
 (133 APHA)
 Abstract
 
HIV and social isolation among African American gay men
 N Teunis
(132 APHA)
 Abstract
 
AIDS-related sexual risk and protective health behaviors: A survey among HIV-positive
African American adults
M Tholandi,  KC Paxton, N Hall,  JK Baham
 (132 APHA)
 Abstract
 
Effectiveness of intensive behavioral counseling in reducing high risk behaviors
and HIV among African American men who have sex with men (MSM)
M  Madison,  G Beauchamp,, M Chesney,  B Koblin
 (132 APHA)
 Abstract
 
Social attachments as HIV risk and HIV protective factors for young Black men who have
sex with men: A qualitative assessment
KT Jones, AB LaPollo,  L Bond
(132 APHA)
 Abstract
 
Sexual risk-taking and HIV prevention among non-gay identified black men who have sex
with women and men
S Feist-Price
 (15IAC)
Abstract
Violence
     

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Sexual abuse and intimate partner violence among Black MSM
L Carson, JL Lauby
 (135  APHA)
Abstract
State/Local Challenges
     
Multiple States

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  State and local public health prevention activities directed toward Black MSM
P Wilson
 (135  APHA)
Abstract
 
From copout to complexity: Emerging perspectives on the "Down Low" from young
black men who have sex with men in the South
JC Smith, AL Brown,M Fisher-Borne, et al
 (135  APHA)
Abstract
 

Alabama

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Secret encounters: black men, bisexuality, and AIDS in Alabama.
Lichtenstein B.
Med Anthropol Q 2000 Sep;14(3):374-93
 Abstract
 		  

California

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  HIV risk behaviors among African American men in Los Angeles County who
self-identify as heterosexual.
Wohl AR, Johnson DF, Lu S, et al
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2002 Nov 1;31(3):354-60
 Abstract
 		  
        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Black Brothers Esteem: effective prevention for black MSM utilizing a social capital
development model
Bland W.
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
 
Georgia

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Social Context of Bisexual Behavior Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM)
in Atlanta, Georgia
GD Malebranche, K Arriola
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Massachusetts

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Association of MSM/ Non-MSM Disclosure and Internalized Homonegativity among
Black/African-American Men Enrolled at Boston Healthcare Clinics
MV Costa, S Welles, A Raj, et al
 (134 APHA)
Abstract

Boston's Community PROMISE PLUS focusing on African American HIV+ men who have
sex with men: Baseline data
SR Raminani, G Williams, J Bradford, BD. Perkins
 (134 APHA)
Abstract 

What is sex, what is not sex, and sexual orientation among Boston black or African-
American (B/AA) men in healthcare clinic settings
S Welles,  A Raj,  MC Santana, CR Horsburgh, et al
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Maryland

        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Continued HIV Transmission among African American MSM/W on North Carolina College
Campuses: Expanding Sexual Networks of Internet Use and Crystal Methamphetamine
LHightow, P Leone, S McCoy,  et al 
(13 CROI)
 Abstract
 

Michigan

        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Finding the Invisible Man: A Best Practices Model for HIV/AIDS-STD Prevention &
Services for AAMSM Through Community Collaboration
O Johnson
2004 National STD Prevention Conference)
Abstract/S
lides
New York

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Sexual Diversity Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in an Inner-City Community.
Miller M, Serner M, Wagner M.   
J Urban Health. 2005 Feb 28;
 Abstract
 
          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Designing a Youth Drop-In Center for Young Men of Color who have sex with Men  
SD Fields,  MJ Wharton,  A Marrero
(134 APHA)
Abstract
 
Roles of Gender in the Sexual and Risk Behaviors of Black Men Who Have Sex with Both
Men and Women (MSMW) in New York City
B Dodge,  TGM Sandfort,  WL Jeffries IV, Y-M Fontaine
 (134 APHA)
Abstract
 
 

Accessing hard-to-reach Black MSM subpopulation groups in New York City through
outreach
M Garcia, D P Wheeler
 (15IAC)
Abstract
 

North Carolina
           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  FULL-TEXT REPORT
 HIV Transmission Among Black College Student and Non-Student Men Who Have
Sex With Men --- North Carolina, 2003
MMWR August 20, 2004 / Vol. 53 / No. 32
 Paper
 
        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Evaluation of a community-level peer-based HIV prevention intervention adapted for young black
men who have sex with men (MSM)
Jones K., Gray P., Wang T., et al
 (XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Continued HIV Transmission among African American MSM/W on North Carolina College
Campuses: Expanding Sexual Networks of Internet Use and Crystal Methamphetamine
LHightow, P Leone, S McCoy,  et al 
(13 CROI)
 Abstract
Religion/Spirituality
     

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  "Let us go into the house of the Lord": participation in African American
churches among young African American men who have sex with men.
Woodyard JL, Peterson JL, Stokes JP. et al
J Pastoral Care 2000 Winter;54(4):451-60
 Abstract
 
        Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Spiritual Agency as a framework for HIV prevention in African American gay men
RL Miller
 (135 APHA)
Abstract

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