Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kerani, Roxanne
• Bennett, Amy B.
• Golden, Matt
• Castillo, Jocelyn
• Buskin, Susan E.

Titel

Foreign-Born Individuals with HIV in King County, WA: A Glimpse of the Future of HIV?

Ist Teil von

• AIDS and behavior, 2018-07, Vol.22 (7), p.2181-2188

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To better understand country of birth-related shifts in the demography of people newly diagnosed with HIV infection, we compared demographic and clinical characteristics of foreign-born and U.S.-born residents of King County, WA diagnosed with HIV from 2006 to 2015. The proportion of cases that were foreign-born increased from 23 to 34% during this time. Most foreign-born cases were born in Africa (34%), Latin America (32%), Asia (22%), or Europe (7%). Latin Americans and Asians were similar to U.S.-born individuals by HIV risk factor and gender, while Africans were more likely to be female and less often men who have sex with men. In 2015, approximately 15% of cases presumptively newly diagnosed in King County were foreign-born individuals who self-reported a pre-immigration HIV diagnosis. Increases in foreign-born individuals previously diagnosed out of country may lead to inaccuracy in the count of new diagnoses, including an over-estimate of community-acquired HIV in King County.