Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, respondent-driven sampling survey

Structural risks including discriminatory country-level policies, prosecutions, and
legal barriers might contribute to higher HIV prevalence among MSM. Taken together,
these data highlight the importance of decriminalisation and decreasing enforcement,
alongside stigma reduction, as central to effective control for HIV.

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