Singer MC, Erickson PI, Badiane L, Diaz RM, Ortiz D, Abraham T, Nicolaysen AM, Syndemics, sex and the city: understanding sexually transmitted diseases in social and cultural context, 2006, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 63, Issue 8, Pages 2010-2021.

Using Syndemic theory, this paper explains how the social, psychological, and economic factors experienced by African American and Puerto Rican heterosexual young adults in Hartford, USA underlie the set of sexual ideas, attitudes and behaviors, and sexual behaviour decisions that give rise to the spread of multiple and potentially interacting STDs