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Social factors related to risk for violence and sexually transmitted infections/HIV among Asian massage parlor workers in San FranciscoTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
AIDS Behav 8:475-83. 2004..Study findings suggest that individualized as well as community-level interventions are necessary to improve these women's health and decrease their prolonged exposure to risks for STIs and violence...- HIV/AIDS surveillance and prevention studies in Japan: summary and recommendationsTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 16:27-42. 2004..Recommendations and suggestions are presented for future HIV prevention research and structural changes in the Japanese government system, which funds HIV/AIDS care and prevention studies... 
HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgender persons of color in San FranciscoTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 94105, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1193-9. 2004..The authors examined HIV risk behaviors among African American, Asian/Pacific Islander (API), and Latina male-to-female (MTF) transgender persons in order to improve HIV prevention programs...- Promoting health for transgender women: Transgender Resources and Neighborhood Space (TRANS) program in San FranciscoTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery St, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Am J Public Health 95:382-4. 2005..Evaluation findings indicate that this community-tailored intervention may be an effective way to reach transgender women and reduce sexual risk behaviors, depression, and perceived barriers to substance abuse treatment... - HIV risk among Asian women working at massage parlors in San FranciscoTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 15:245-56. 2003..Interventions should address cultural and occupational contexts in which Asian masseuses engage in sex work, and should focus on altering massage parlor policies and work environments... - HIV risk and prevention among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men: listen to our storiesTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, 94105, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 15:7-20. 2003.... - Risk behaviors of Filipino methamphetamine users in San Francisco: implications for prevention and treatment of drug use and HIVTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Public Health Rep 117:S30-8. 2002..This study describes the demographics, HIV risk and drug use behaviors, and psychosocial status of Filipino American methamphetamine users in the San Francisco Bay area... - HIV risk behaviors among Asian drug users in San FranciscoT Nemoto
Asian American Recovery Services, San Francisco, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 12:126-40. 2000..Among IDUs, half cited trust as a reason for having shared needles. AIDS prevention programs targeting Asian drug users should consider specific cultural factors among high-risk groups (i.e., Filipinos, immigrants, women, and IDUs)... - Risk behaviors among Asian women who work at massage parlors in San Francisco: perspectives from masseuses and owners/managersTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, 74 New Montgomery Street, Ste 600, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 17:444-56. 2005.... - Need for HIV/AIDS education and intervention for MTF transgenders: responding to the challengeTooru Nemoto
Center for AID Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
J Homosex 51:183-202. 2006.... - Social context of HIV risk behaviours among male-to-female transgenders of colourT Nemoto
University of California at San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA
AIDS Care 16:724-35. 2004.... - HIV-related risk behaviors among kathoey (male-to-female transgender) sex workers in Bangkok, ThailandTooru Nemoto
Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA, USA
AIDS Care 24:210-9. 2012..The study provided implications for facilitating HIV testing and developing future HIV prevention intervention programs for KSWs in Thailand... - Substance use and sexual behaviors among Japanese tourists, students, and temporary workers in Honolulu, HawaiiTooru Nemoto
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 19:68-81. 2007..g., temporary workers in Hawaii), and provide information about HIV/STD prevention in relation to substance use... 
Targeted expansion project for outreach and treatment for substance abuse and HIV risk behaviors in Asian and Pacific Islander communitiesTooru Nemoto
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 23:175-91. 2011..Although API organizations in the Bay Area have spearheaded HIV prevention, future programs must address substance use issues in relation to sexual risk behaviors, specific to API risk groups...- The impact of exposure to transphobia on HIV risk behavior in a sample of transgendered women of color in San FranciscoEiko Sugano
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
AIDS Behav 10:217-25. 2006..2 times higher risk for engaging in URAI compared to those reporting lower levels. Findings from this study corroborate the importance of exposure to transphobia on HIV risk, particularly among transgendered young adults... - Social support, exposure to violence and transphobia, and correlates of depression among male-to-female transgender women with a history of sex workTooru Nemoto
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1980-8. 2011..We determined racial/ethnic differences in social support and exposure to violence and transphobia, and explored correlates of depression among male-to-female transgender women with a history of sex work (THSW)... - Conducting HIV interventions for Asian Pacific Islander men who have sex with men: challenges and compromises in community collaborative researchDon Operario
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 17:334-46. 2005..Strategies and best practices for building community capacity in evaluation research are provided, and theoretical considerations for conducting community-based health interventions are raised... - HIV seroprevalence, risk behaviors, and cognitive factors among Asian and Pacific Islander American men who have sex with men: a summary and critique of empirical studies and methodological issuesT Nemoto
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 10:31-47. 1998..Thus, a conceptual framework for such methodologies with examples was reviewed. Two alternative methodologies, network analysis and venue-based sampling, were briefly discussed... - HIV risk behaviours among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual femalesT Nemoto
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA
AIDS Care 11:297-312. 1999..Adverse socioeconomic conditions and transgender-specific risk behaviours such as injecting hormones in relation to HIV risk behaviours must be targeted by future intervention studies... - Drug use behaviors among Asian drug users in San FranciscoT Nemoto
Asian American Recovery Services, San Francisco, CA, USA
Addict Behav 24:823-38. 1999..Therefore, drug abuse prevention programs should address both common factors among Asian drug users, as well as unique factors in specific target groups (e.g., ethnic groups, Asian immigrants, Asian women, refugees, and adolescents)... - Sexual risk behavior and substance use among a sample of Asian Pacific Islander transgendered womenDon Operario
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 234, UK
AIDS Educ Prev 17:430-43. 2005..15, 95% = 2.26, 22.63). Findings suggest that API MTF transgenders are on the front line of HIV risk for the API community, and provide insight into factors within this group that might contribute to unsafe sex and substance use... - [Study of therapeutic community for drug dependence in San Francisco (I)]Nobuaki Morita
Department of Mental Hygiene, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai Zasshi 38:440-53. 2003..In order to learn the programs of TCs, we attend the programs of Walden house and Asian and American Recovery Services (AARS), which San Francisco and rehabilitation programs in Japan and how to introduce the TC methods into Japan...