Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Eligibility and HIV Incidence in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The connection between food insecurity and HIV outcomes is well established. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the primary food safety net program in the United States, may have collateral impacts on HIV incidence. "Broad-based categorical eligibility" for SNAP is a policy that provides a mechanism for states to increase the income or asset limits for SNAP eligibility.

Methods

We estimated the association between the number of new HIV diagnoses in 2010-2014 for each state and (1) state income limits and (2) state asset limits for SNAP eligibility. We fitted multivariable negative binomial regression models with number of HIV diagnoses specified as the outcome; SNAP policies as the primary explanatory variable of interest; state and year fixed e

SUBMITTER: Richterman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368054 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature