Characteristics of new HIV diagnoses over 1995-2019: A clinic-based study in Montreal, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Characterization of populations at risk of acquiring HIV is required to inform the public health response to HIV. To identify potential changing needs in HIV prevention and care cascade, we aim to describe how the demographic profiles and exposure categories of newly diagnosed HIV positive individuals attending a large sexual health clinic in Montréal (Canada) evolved since the beginning of the antiretroviral therapy era in the mid-1990s.

Methods

Using diagnosis data from participants of the Clinique médicale l'Actuel cohort of HIV-positive patients, we examined the distribution of exposure categories (sexual orientation, sexual behaviours, injection drug use, being born in an HIV-endemic country) by gender and year of diagnosis. Time trends in mean age and in the

SUBMITTER: Giguere K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8496787 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature