Identifying opportunities to increase HIV testing among mexican migrants: a call to step up efforts in health care and detention settings.

ABSTRACT: HIV testing and counseling is a critical component of HIV prevention efforts and core element of current "treatment as prevention" strategies. Mobility, low education and income, and limited access to health care put Latino migrants at higher risk for HIV and represent barriers for adequate levels of HIV testing in this population. We examined correlates of, and missed opportunities to increase, HIV testing for circular Mexican migrants in the U.S. We used data from a probability-based survey of returning Mexican migrants (N=1161) conducted in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. We estimated last 12-months rates of HIV testing and the percentage of migrants who received other health care services or were detained in an immigration center, jail, or prison for 30 or more days in the U.S., bu

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Donate AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4393219 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature