Redlining and Time to Viral Suppression Among Persons With HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Structural racism in the US is evidenced in the discriminatory practice of historical racial redlining when neighborhoods were valued, in part, based on the community's racial and ethnic compositions. However, the influence of these systemic practices in the context of the HIV epidemic is not well understood.

Objective

To assess the effect of redlining on time to viral suppression among people newly diagnosed with HIV.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational study that included individuals diagnosed with HIV from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the time of their HIV diagnosis, these individuals lived in neighborhoods historically mapped by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC). The HOLC lending risk maps class

SUBMITTER: Bassler JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11536221 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature