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Global Public Health
An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice
Volume 11, 2016 - Issue 7-8: The trouble with ‘Categories’: Rethinking men who have sex with men, transgender and their equivalents in HIV prevention and health promotion
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Towards ‘reflexive epidemiology’: Conflation of cisgender male and transgender women sex workers and implications for global understandings of HIV prevalence

Amaya G. Perez-BrumerDepartment of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Catherine E. OldenburgDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USAView further author information
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Sari L. ReisnerDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;The Fenway Institute, Fenway Community Health, Boston, MA, USAView further author information
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Jesse L. ClarkDepartment of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USAView further author information
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Richard G. ParkerDepartment of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA;ABIA (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association), Rio de Janeiro, BrazilView further author information
Pages 849-865 | Received 20 Dec 2015, Accepted 18 Apr 2016, Published online: 12 May 2016

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