Providing HIV Comprehensive Care to Latino/as Who Inject Drugs

Philadelphia, 2013–2018

Bibliographic Data

ID11021593
AuthorsLaura Bamford (0000-0001-5988-8372, Laura Bamford is with the Jonathan Lax Treatment Center, Medical Leadership, Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, PA. Jose Benitez is with Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is with the School of Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia.), Jose Benitez (0000-0002-9142-4508, Laura Bamford is with the Jonathan Lax Treatment Center, Medical Leadership, Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, PA. Jose Benitez is with Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is with the School of Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia.), Miguel Muñoz‐laboy (0000-0003-1259-5382, Laura Bamford is with the Jonathan Lax Treatment Center, Medical Leadership, Philadelphia FIGHT, Philadelphia, PA. Jose Benitez is with Prevention Point Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Miguel Muñoz-Laboy is with the School of Social Work, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia.), Miguel Muñoz-Laboy
Year2019
Volume109
Issue2
Pages273-275
Publication date2019-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2018.304805
PMID30571309
OpenAlexW2905861495
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

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%)

Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Intervention (counseling) · Psychiatry · Puerto rican · HIV Research and Treatment · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Gerontology

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access