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May 2006, Vol 96, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 766
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.085258

LETTER

YOUNG AND MEYER RESPOND

Rebecca M. Young, PhD and Ilan H. Meyer, PhD

Rebecca Young is with the Department of Women’s Studies, Barnard College, and Ilan H. Meyer is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ilan H. Meyer, PhD, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th St, Room 911, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: im15@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In response to our article, we have heard from public health researchers and practitioners from the United States and abroad. Many shared our concerns about problems posed by the terms MSM and WSW and some, such as Khan and Khan,1 Pathela et al.,2 and Ford,3 raised new questions. We are pleased that we succeeded in initiating a conversation among public health professionals about the use of the terms MSM and WSW and thank the writers for engaging in the dialogue.

Khan and Khan’s letter demonstrates that the alleged simplicity and universality of MSM is false: the term cannot be applied . . . [Full Text]




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