HIV Prevalence and HIV Screening History Among a Veterans Association Cohort of People with Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Veterans face high risk for HIV and substance use, and thus could be disproportionately impacted by the HIV and substance use disorder (SUD) "syndemic." HIV prevalence among veterans with SUD is unknown.

Objective

To project HIV prevalence and lifetime HIV screening history among US veterans with alcohol use disorder (AUD), opioid use disorder (OUD), or both.

Design

We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data.

Participants

We selected three cohorts of veterans with SUD: (1) AUD, (2) OUD, and (3) AUD/OUD. Included veterans had ICD codes for AUD/OUD from 2016 to 2022 recorded in VHA electronic medical records, sourced from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW).

Main measures

We estimated

SUBMITTER: McCann NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10897116 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature