County-level factors affecting Latino HIV disparities in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine which county-level social, economic, demographic, epidemiologic and access to care factors are associated with Latino/non-Latino White disparities in prevalence of diagnosed HIV infection.

Methods and findings

We used 2016 county-level prevalence rates of diagnosed HIV infection rates for Latinos and non-Latino Whites obtained from the National HIV Surveillance System and factors obtained from multiple publicly available datasets. We used mixed effects Poisson modeling of observed HIV prevalence at the county-level to identify county-level factors that explained homogeneous effects across race/ethnicity and differential effects for Latinos and NL-Whites. Overall, the median Latinos disparity in HIV prevalence is 2.4; 94% of the counties have higher rat

SUBMITTER: Benbow ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7423131 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature