Friedman, M. Reuel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6191-9799
Stall, Ron
Plankey, Michael
Shoptaw, Steve
Herrick, A. L.
Surkan, Pamela J.
Teplin, Linda
Silvestre, Anthony J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Mental Health (5 P30 MH058107)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U01-AI35041)
Article History
Received: 5 January 2015
Revised: 7 September 2016
Accepted: 8 September 2016
First Online: 21 November 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (see Acknowledgments section for full grants information). The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: The manuscript has not been submitted to more than one journal for simultaneous consideration. Small portions of this appeared previously in substantially different form in the lead author’s doctoral dissertation: Friedman et al. (CitationRef removed). HIV among men who have sex with men and women (MSMW): prevalence estimates, acquisition and transmission risks, and implications for interventions (Doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh). This article significantly expands upon this previous work. We have taken care not to split up these data into several parts to increase submission quantity. No data have been fabricated or manipulated to support conclusions. No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own, and all source data have been properly cited. Consent to submit has been received explicitly from all co-authors, as well as from the responsible authorities—tacitly or explicitly—at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before the work was submitted. All authors whose names appear on the submission have contributed sufficiently to the scientific work and therefore share collective responsibility and accountability for the results.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The Institutional Review Boards at each respective Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study partner institution (University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University, University of California-Los Angeles, and Northwestern University) approved of the behavioral measures assessed and reported on herein.