Black-White Latino Racial Disparities in HIV Survival, Florida, 2000-2011

This research aimed to estimate Black/White racial disparities in all-cause mortality risk among HIV-positive Latinos. 

Florida surveillance data for Latinos diagnosed with HIV (2000-2008) were merged with 2007-2011 American Community Survey data. Crude and adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) were calculated using multi-level Cox regression. Of 10,903 HIV-positive Latinos, 8.2% were Black and 91.9% White. Black Latinos were at increased mortality risk compared with White Latinos after controlling for individual and neighborhood factors. 

In stratified analyses, risk factors for Black Latinos included: age ≥60 years compared with ages 13-19; US birth compared with foreign birth; diagnosis of AIDS within three months of HIV diagnosis; residence in the 3rd and 4th highest quartiles of neighborhood poverty compared with the lowest quartile; and residence in neighborhood with 25%-49% and ≥50% Latinos compared with <25% Latinos. 

Significant racial disparities in HIV survival exist among Latinos. Differential access to-and quality of-care and perceived/experienced racial discrimination may be possible explanations.

Below:  Survival after HIV diagnosis probability curves for Latinos 13 years of age and older reported with HIV by race, Florida, 2000–2011. Includes imputed data for race. Curves are unadjusted for age

Full article at:   http://goo.gl/uaFrhw

By:   Sheehan DM1, Trepka MJ2, Fennie KP3, Prado G4, Cano MÁ5, Maddox LM6.

• 1Center for Substance Use and HIV/AIDS Research on Latinos in the United States (C-SALUD) and Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, USA. dshee004@fiu.edu.
• 2Center for Substance Use and HIV/AIDS Research on Latinos in the United States (C-SALUD) and Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, USA. trepkam@fiu.edu.
• 3Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, USA. kfennie@fiu.edu.
• 4Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th St., Miami, FL 33136, USA. gprado@med.miami.edu.
• 5Department of Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199, USA. mcanojr@fiu.edu.
• 6HIV/AIDS Section, Florida Department of Health, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Tallahassee, FL 32399, USA. lorene.maddox@flhealth.gov.
• Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015 Dec 22;13(1). pii: E9. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13010009.

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