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- Title
Providing HIV Comprehensive Care to Latino/as Who Inject Drugs: Philadelphia, 2013–2018.
- Authors
Bamford, Laura; Benitez, Jose; Muñoz-Laboy, Miguel
- Abstract
Latino/as who inject drugs have the lowest level of retention in HIV care and the lowest HIV viral suppression rates in the United States. We set up an intervention to provide comprehensive, integrated HIV primary care services to Spanish-speaking and bilingual HIV-positive people who inject drugs of Puerto Rican ancestry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2016, the rate of HIV viral suppression in our intervention (83%) far exceeded the rate for all individuals diagnosed with HIV in Philadelphia (51%).
- Subjects
PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; MEDICAL care of HIV-positive persons; MEDICAL care of Hispanic Americans; INTRAVENOUS drug abusers; VIRUS-induced immunosuppression; PRIMARY care; PUERTO Rican Americans; DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections; HISPANIC Americans; HIV infections; INJECTIONS; INTEGRATED health care delivery; PRIMARY health care; SUBSTANCE abuse
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2019, Vol 109, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2018.304805