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Transgender Men Standing Up to HIV
While transgender women face higher rates of HIV infection than any other group within the LGBT community, transgender men also face similar barriers to HIV-related care, yet we rarely hear their stories.
Achim Howard is an openly HIV-positive transgender man. In this article, he shares his experience and discusses the lack of data on trans men living with HIV.
“I know there are a lot of trans men who sleep with cis men and they’re not being educated on their risk factors or how they can protect themselves… There are more men like myself out there who are HIV-positive but they’re scared to talk about it and they’re not getting checked out… I’m just standing up for the trans men who can’t stand up for themselves.“