Why This Center Is Necessary

HIV/AIDS continues to be a public health crisis for the transgender community. Twenty-five years into the epidemic, researchers are only beginning to substantiate what the community has experienced: HIV prevalence among the highest in the country, exceeding 27% overall for women and reaching as high as 56% in some populations. The CoE is committed to making the best knowledge and practices accessible to providers, clinicians, consumers, researchers, and others involved in HIV prevention programs and the care and treatment of transgender persons living with HIV.

Publications

• Assessing Progress, Advancing Excellence: Serving Transgender People in California Examines current issues in HIV prevention among transgender people and describes common barriers and facilitators to successful program implementation and management, outlines services that are still needed, identifies which subgroups of transgender people are not being served, generates recommendations to inform the allocation of resources, and summarizes best practices for transgender HIV prevention. (PDF, 463KB)
• Recommendations for Inclusive Data Collection of Trans People in HIV Prevention, Care and Services Data collection recommendations to obtain accurate information which both validates a person's present gender identity and also gives an understanding of their history. Check out our Two-Page Summary. (PDF, 110KB)
• What are Male-to-Female Transgender Persons' (MtF) HIV Prevention Needs? Keatley J, Bockting W. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, September 2008.
• Inventory of Transgender HIV Prevention Programs in California Trans-specific programs are centered in the state's major metropolitan areas.
• Eight Best Practices for HIV Prevention among Trans People Poster and fact sheet prepared by the CoE. (PDF, 1.3MB)