TY - JOUR T1 - Researching stigmatised communities: lessons from a study of MSM in India JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 283 LP - 283 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051845 VL - 91 IS - 4 AU - Vijay Kumar Silan AU - Shashi Kant Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/91/4/283.abstract N2 - Research with men who have sex with men (MSM) involves many challenges, largely related to the stigma experienced by this community. We describe here our approach in India, which we hope may be useful to future researchers.Initial rapport building with stakeholders helped us gain an initial understanding of how to formulate our research and obtain undocumented information about the MSM. For example, we familiarised ourselves with code words … ER -