AI Article Synopsis
- Latino/as who inject drugs in the U.S. experience significant challenges, including low retention in HIV care and low viral suppression rates.
- An intervention was created in Philadelphia to offer comprehensive HIV primary care services specifically for Spanish-speaking and bilingual Puerto Rican individuals living with HIV who inject drugs.
- By 2016, this intervention achieved an impressive HIV viral suppression rate of 83%, which was notably higher than the overall 51% rate for individuals diagnosed with HIV in the city.
Article 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%).
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336044 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304805 | DOI Listing |
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