Increase in Unemployment over the 2000's: Comparison between People Living with HIV and the French General Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite improved health, unemployment has increased among people living with HIV (PlwHIV) over the last decade. However, since the economic recession of 2008, unemployment also increased in the French general population. This paper aimed to determine if the increase in the unemployment rate in the HIV population was higher than that in the French general population.

Methods

We used data from the ANRS-Vespa study, a repeated cross-sectional survey among two national representative samples of PlwHIV followed at hospitals in France in 2003 and 2011. We compared employment and unemployment rates between HIV-infected people (overall and according to period of HIV diagnosis) and the French general population in 2003 and 2011, using multivariate Poisson regressions adjus

SUBMITTER: Annequin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096670 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature