Michele G. Shedlin

TL;DR: Findings suggest that Latino men who have sex with men frequently reported coming to the USA to escape homo‐negativity and to achieve greater sexual freedom and the tendency to engage in high levels of sexual activity during the early period after arrival in New York City was particularly evident among younger men.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified contextual factors as well as attitudes, experiences and beliefs affecting HIV risk among recent Hispanic immigrants in New York and identified challenges to participant recruitment were identified which were related to the environments, characteristics of the populations, and the sensitive nature of the topic to be studied.

TL;DR: Compared with women who obtained combined oral contraceptives in U.S. public clinics, relative combined oral contraceptive contraindications are more common among OTC users in this setting and progestin-only pills might be a better candidate for the first OTC product given their fewer contrainDications.

TL;DR: Results suggest providing OCP users with more pill packs and removing the prescription requirement would lead to increased continuation, and there was no difference in discontinuation between clinic users receiving six or more pill Packs and users obtaining pills without a prescription.

TL;DR: Factors affecting HIV/AIDS vulnerability of immigrant groups, goals and expectations, health and mental heath issues, gender role change, sexual risk, alcohol and other drug use, perception of HIV/ AIDS risk and implications for prevention are addressed.