Drug Use and STI/HIV Risk among East and Southeast Asian Men Who Have Sex with Men in Toronto
In a study of 222 East and Southeast (E & SE) Asian men who have sex with men (MSM), the researchers found that one in four participants had used drugs in the past six months. They also found that E & SE Asian MSM who used drugs were more likely to engage in sexual behaviours that put them at higher risks of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI).
ABSTRACT This article compares black and Hispanic environmental inequality levels across 14 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States and asks how conclusions regarding the existence of environmental inequality differ when different definitions of environmental inequality are employed. Using census tracts as the unit of analysis, industrial pollution data from the Toxic Release Inventory, and demographic data from the U.S. census, tobit regression analysis is used to determine whether two types of environmental racial inequality—disparate social impacts inequality and relative distribution inequality—existed in each metropolitan area in 2000. Results show that black and Hispanic environmental inequality were fairly widespread throughout the 14 metropolitan areas, that Hispanic environmental inequality was more widespread than black environmental inequality, and that conclusions vary depending upon which definition of environmental inequality is employed. This latter findings suggests that the...