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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2021 Aug 1;35(10):1637–1645. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002917

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)
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.

a

State had any HIV criminalization law as of August 2017 according to the Center for HIV Law & Policy.

b

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.

c

Models adjusted for age, education, incarceration history, community intolerance of gay/bisexual men, and self-reported HIV status.

d

Model adjusted for age, education, region, and personally experienced discrimination for being gay/bisexual in the past 12 months.