Partnership status and time to viral suppression and sustained viral suppression among newly diagnosed heterosexual people with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies examining the role of partnership on HIV care outcomes have primarily focused on the men who have sex with men population in the United States, leaving a gap in the literature on this phenomenon among the heterosexual persons with HIV (PWH). This study examined association between partnership around diagnosis (married, unmarried-partnered, and un-partnered) with time to viral suppression (TVS) and sustained viral suppression (SVS) in newly diagnosed heterosexual PWH from a HIV clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.

Methods

TVS [time to first viral load (VL) <200 copies/ml] was measured using VLs from 12 months following diagnosis using Kaplan-Meier and proportional hazard model for interval censoring (n=153) to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95%

SUBMITTER: Sohail M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9364114 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature