Title
New Faces of HIV Infection: Age, Race, and Timing of Entry into HIV Care in the Southeastern United States
Date Issued
01 July 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Rebeiro P.F.
Ivey K.S.
Craig K.S.
Hulgan T.
Nash R.
Raffanti S.
Equakun K.A.
Person A.K.
University of Cincinnati
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Inc.
Abstract
Among younger men who have sex with men (MSM), the incidence of HIV is rising nationally. Of the 281 persons who entered into care at a large HIV clinic in the southeastern United States in 2010 to 2012, 78 (27.8%) were <25 years old at the time of diagnosis. Those in the younger group were more likely than those aged ≥25 to be black (59.0% versus 37.4%), MSM (78.2% versus 55.2%), and to have a longer median time from diagnosis to entry into care (71 versus 53 days; P <.05 each). In adjusted survival analysis, persons of black race were less likely to enter care after diagnosis than those of nonblack race (hazard ratio = 0.75, P =.02). Young MSM represent an important target population for prevention and HIV testing interventions, and there is a need to shorten the time from diagnosis to linkage to care, particularly in persons aged <25 and of black race.
Start page
347
End page
352
Volume
16
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias socio biomédicas (planificación familiar, salud sexual, efectos políticos y sociales de la investigación biomédica) Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85027236183
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
ISSN of the container
23259574
Sponsor(s)
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) through the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI110527); by the NIAID, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) through the Caribbean, Central, and South American network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet; U01 AI069923) and the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD; U01 AI069918); and by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center (U01 OHA28686).
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