Table 3.
Within-racial group comparison of stigma between MSM living in states with versus without HIV lawsa (n = 7392) – NHBS, 2017.
Outcome | Black MSM (n = 3844) | |||||||||||
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Law (n = 2963) | No law (n = 881) | |||||||||||
No. | %b | 95% CI | No. | %b | 95% CI | uPR | 95% CI | P-value | aPR | 95% CI | P-value | |
My community… | ||||||||||||
…would discriminate against people with HIV | 1822 | 58.5 | 55.3, 61.7 | 454 | 51.2 | 46.4, 56.0 | 1.14 | 1.02, 1.27 | 0.01 | 1.14c | 1.02, 1.29 | 0.02 |
…would not support people with HIV’s rights to live and work wherever they want | 691 | 19.7 | 17.5, 21.9 | 154 | 15.7 | 12.1, 19.3 | 1.25 | 0.97, 1.62 | 0.08 | 1.13c | 0.86, 1.47 | 0.37 |
…would not be friends with people with HIV | 689 | 18.5 | 16.0, 21.0 | 133 | 13.9 | 10.5, 17.3 | 1.33 | 1.00, 1.76 | 0.04 | 1.16c | 0.86, 1.58 | 0.33 |
…believes people with HIV ‘got what they deserved’ | 923 | 27.0 | 24.1, 29.8 | 198 | 21.6 | 17.9, 25.3 | 1.25 | 1.03, 1.52 | 0.02 | 1.19c | 0.96, 1.47 | 0.10 |
…is intolerant of gay/bisexual men | 531 | 13.8 | 11.7, 16.0 | 78 | 6.7 | 4.6, 8.8 | 2.06 | 1.45, 2.91 | <0.001 | 2.02d | 1.43, 2.86 | <0.001 |
Outcome | White MSM (n = 3548) | |||||||||||
Law (n = 1968) | No law (n = 1580) | |||||||||||
No. | %b | 95% CI | No. | %b | 95% CI | uPR | 95% CI | P-value | aPR | 95% CI | P-value | |
My community… | ||||||||||||
…would discriminate against people with HIV | 687 | 34.3 | 30.9, 37.7 | 560 | 41.7 | 37.9, 45.6 | 0.83 | 0.72, 0.95 | <0.01 | 0.82 | 0.72, 0.94 | <0.001 |
…would not support people with HIV’s rights to live and work wherever they want | 219 | 9.3 | 7.1, 11.6 | 162 | 11.2 | 8.7, 13.8 | 0.83 | 0.60, 1.16 | 0.28 | 0.79 | 0.56, 1.11 | 0.17 |
…would not be friends with people with HIV | 205 | 9.8 | 7.6, 12.0 | 134 | 10.4 | 7.7, 13.1 | 0.95 | 0.68, 1.33 | 0.75 | 0.9 | 0.64, 1.27 | 0.17 |
…believes people with HIV ‘got what they deserved’ | 321 | 15.7 | 13.2, 18.2 | 199 | 13.5 | 11.1, 15.9 | 1.16 | 0.91, 1.48 | 0.22 | 1.12 | 0.87, 1.45 | 0.37 |
…is intolerant of gay/bisexual men | 119 | 4.9 | 3.4, 6.4 | 50 | 3.3 | 2.0, 4.5 | 1.50 | 0.91, 2.45 | 0.11 | 1.55 | 0.94, 2.56 | 0.08 |
aPR, adjusted prevalence ratio; CI, confidence interval; NHBS, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance; uPR, unadjusted prevalence ratio.
State had any HIV criminalization law as of August 2017 according to the Center for HIV Law & Policy.
Column percentages are weighted to account for sampling biases, nonresponse, and multiplicity and may not sum to 100% due to rounding. The sampling design and weighting methods allow inference to all venue-attending men who have sex with men living in cities.
Models adjusted for age, education, incarceration history, community intolerance of gay/bisexual men, and self-reported HIV status.
Model adjusted for age, education, region, and personally experienced discrimination for being gay/bisexual in the past 12 months.