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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2019.752

Using global positioning system methods to explore mobility patterns and exposure to high HIV prevalence neighbourhoods among transgender women in New York

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Received: 6 November 2018
Accepted: 10 April 2019
Published: 12 November 2019
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Spatial Epidemiology, Transgender, HIV, Mobility, Global positioning system

Authors

William C. Goedel
Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, United States.
Seann D. Regan
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States.
Basile Chaix
“Pierre-Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France.
Asa Radix
Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY, United States.
Sari L. Reisner
Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Aron C. Janssen
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Dustin T. Duncan
dd3018@columbia.edu
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States.

The aim of this study was to assess mobility patterns among a sample of transgender women (n=14) in New York City via survey and Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring. We found varying levels of concordance between the residential neighbourhood and each of the non-residential contexts: 64.3% considered the neighbourhood that they socialised in most often to be different from their residential neighbourhood. While participants' residences represented 10 zone improvement plan code tabulation areas (ZCTAs), GPS data were recorded in 124 of 263 ZCTAs (47.1%). Overall, 58.2% (n=373,262) were recorded in ZCTAs in the highest quartile of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence. The association between place, community HIV prevalence, mobility, and factors that increase the vulnerability of transgender women to HIV infection are worthy of future investigation in reducing the burden of the HIV epidemic in these communities.

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Supporting Agencies

This work was funded by a grant from the New York University College of Arts and Science Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund (Principal Investigator: William C. Goedel, BA). At the time of analysis and writing, Dustin T. Duncan, ScD was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01MD013554, R01MH112406, and R03DA039748), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U01PS005122).

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Using global positioning system methods to explore mobility patterns and exposure to high HIV prevalence neighbourhoods among transgender women in New York. (2019). Geospatial Health, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2019.752

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