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AIDS Care
Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Volume 18, 2006 - Issue sup1
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Migration patterns following HIV diagnosis among adults residing in the nonurban Deep South

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Pages 51-58 | Published online: 18 Jan 2007
 

Abstract

Health care needs of those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and subsequent transmission dynamics are altered by migration after infection. We interviewed 760 HIV-infected persons attending HIV-specialty clinics living in non-urban Alabama and Mississippi to ascertain the likely geographic origins of their infections, determine their post-HIV diagnosis mobility, and identify predictors of this mobility. Most subjects (81%) were living in these two states when diagnosed and have not moved since learning of their HIV status (70%). Of those who moved their primary residence post-HIV diagnosis (25% of the entire study population), the majority in-migrated to Alabama or Mississippi from elsewhere. Persons who had moved post-HIV diagnosis were more likely to be male, an injection drug user, an urban resident at HIV diagnosis, have an AIDS-defining condition, and have moved prior to HIV diagnosis. We conclude that most HIV transmission in non-urban Alabama and Mississippi is acquired locally. These results underline the need to expand HIV prevention programs in the Deep South.

The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant #U64/CCU413433.

All study protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant #U64/CCU413433.

All study protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Drs. Sharyn Janes and Troy Moon to this project.

Notes

The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant #U64/CCU413433.

All study protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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