"Times Are Changing": The Impact of HIV Diagnosis on Sub-Saharan Migrants' Lives in France.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Migrants account for 35% of HIV diagnoses in the European Union (ECDC/WHO 2014). Little is known about the impact of such a lifelong infection diagnosis on lives that are already disrupted by migration. In this paper, we assess the impact of HIV diagnosis on activity, union, well-being among African migrants living in France, the second group most affected by HIV after MSM. We compare it with the impact of the diagnosis of Hepatitis B, another lifelong infection affecting African migrants.

Methods

We use the ANRS PARCOURS survey, a retrospective life-event survey led in 2012-2013 in 74 health structures in Paris greater area which collected 926 life histories of Sub-Saharan migrants living with HIV and 779 with Hepatitis B. We modelled the probability year by year

SUBMITTER: Gosselin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5271323 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature