@article{ae996b3c10e44156a80d87aa61cb3737,
title = "Church attendance in men who have sex with men diagnosed with HIV is associated with later presentation for HIV care",
abstract = "We demonstrate an interdependent relationship between sexual behavior and church attendance on timing of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnosis and presentation for care. Men who have sex with men (MSM) and who attend church are more likely to present with lower CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts than MSM who do not attend church.",
keywords = "AIDS, Church attendance, HIV, Religion",
author = "{Van Wagoner}, Nicholas and Michael Mugavero and Andrew Westfall and John Hollimon and Slater, {Larry Z.} and Greer Burkholder and Raper, {James L.} and Hook, {Edward W.}",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support. This work was supported by the Frommeyer Fellowship, Young Investigator Award, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; and by the National Institutes of Health (grant number 1K23AI097267). Funding Information: Potential conflicts of interest. N. J. V. W. has served as a consultant to Genocea Biosciences. M. M. has served as a consultant for Merck, BMS, and Gilead and has received grant support from BMS, Definicare, and Pfizer. A. W. has served as a consultant for Definicare. E. W. H. has served as a consultant for MedHelp, Rib-X Pharm, and Cempra; receives research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Becton Dickinson, Hologic/Gen-Probe, Roche Molecular, Cepheid, and Cempra; and has received book royalties, payment for educational presentation development, or travel funds from McGraw-Hill, Becton Dickinson, and Cempra. All other authors report no potential conflicts.",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1093/cid/cit689",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "58",
pages = "295--299",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "2",
}