Community poverty and trends in racial/ethnic survival disparities among people diagnosed with AIDS in Florida, 1993-2004.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We described the racial/ethnic disparities in survival among people diagnosed with AIDS in Florida from 1993 to 2004, as the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became widespread. We determined whether these disparities decreased after controlling for measures of community-level socioeconomic status.

Methods

We compared survival from all causes between non-Hispanic Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites vis-a-vis survival curves and Cox proportional hazards models controlling for demographic, clinical, and area-level poverty factors.

Results

Racial/ethnic disparities in survival peaked for those diagnosed during the early implementation of HAART (1996-1998) with a Black-to-White hazard ratio (HR) of 1.72 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.62

SUBMITTER: Trepka MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3625044 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature