Characteristics of Adults With Diagnosed HIV Who Experienced Housing Instability: Findings From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medical Monitoring Project, United States, 2018.

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Abstract

People living with HIV (PLWH) who experience homelessness have poorer clinical outcomes than people with HIV who are not homeless; however, there is limited information on PLWH who experience other forms of housing instability. We used interviews and medical record abstraction data from the Medical Monitoring Project, collected 2018-2019 (N = 4,050), to describe sociodemographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of adults with HIV by whether people experienced unstable housing in the past 12 months. Overall, 21% were unstably housed, of which 55.2% were unstably housed but not homeless. People who were unstably housed were more likely to be younger, have lower educational attainment, be previously incarcerated, live at or below the poverty level, and have poorer mental

SUBMITTER: Marcus R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature