Journal ArticleDOI
HIV: The invisible epidemic of the United States healthcare system
Robert J. Smith,B. D. Aggarwala +1 more
TLDR
It is argued that the HIV epidemic in the United States is considerably more widespread than is officially reported and theUnited States healthcare system provides an additional pressure that simultaneously discriminates against and ignores the very people it should be targeting most.Abstract:
We argue that the HIV epidemic in the United States is considerably more widespread than is officially reported. The occasional reports of outbreaks in cities like Washington DC, comparison with other countries in the developed world and our mathematical models, all point to the conclusion that the number of people living with HIV, but not AIDS, in the United States is more than four times larger than the current estimate. Although there are many reasons that HIV-positive individuals may not be aware of their serostatus, we argue that the United States healthcare system provides an additional pressure that simultaneously discriminates against and ignores the very people it should be targeting most.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Use of Perinatal and Infant Health Services by Mexican-American Medicaid Enrollees
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied perinatal and infant health service use by Mexican-American women and non-Hispanic white women and their infants enrolled in Arizona's Medicaid program and explored characteristics associated with use of health services.
Journal ArticleDOI
Long-Term Changes of HIV/AIDS Incidence Rate in China and the U.S. Population From 1994 to 2019: A Join-Point and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the long-term trends of HIV/AIDS incidence by gender in China and the U.S. between 1994 and 2019, and observed an oscillating trend of the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) in China, and an increasing ASIR trend in the U.,S. population.
“Black Americans and HIV/AIDS in Popular Media” Conforming to The Politics of Respectability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a solution to solve the problem of the problem: this paper ] of unstructured data, which is also referred to as data augmentation.
DissertationDOI
Impulsive Differential Equations with Applications to Infectious Diseases
TL;DR: Three biological applications showing the use of impulsive differential equations in real-world problems and the existence and uniqueness of T-periodic solutions are presented, and how stability changes when varying the immune response rate, the impulses and a certain nonlinear infection term are shown.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Access to Ambulatory Care for Adolescents: The Role of a Usual Source of Care
TL;DR: Characteristics of ambulatory service utilization for adolescents aged 11 through 17 were examined and inequities were related more to lack of usual source of care rather than socioeconomic characteristics.
Journal ArticleDOI
Clinical Manifestations of HIV Infection in Children at Enugu, Nigeria
Ifeoma J Emodi,Okafor Go +1 more
TL;DR: Three-hundred-and-fifty-eight pediatric patients below 16 years of age screened for suspected human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection between October 1989 and September 1996 were confirmed positive.
Journal ArticleDOI
Prevalence of HIV in the US household population: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1988 to 2002.
Geraldine M. McQuillan,Deanna Kruszon-Moran,Benny J. Kottiri,Laurie A. Kamimoto,Lee Lam,M. Faye Cowart,Marjorie Hubbard,Thomas J. Spira +7 more
TL;DR: S serum or urine samples from 2 National Health and Nutrition Examinations Surveys (NHANES) (1988-1994 and 1999-2002), were tested for HIV antibody, finding cocaine use and the presence of herpes simplex virus-2 antibody were the only significant risk factors for HIV infection for non-Hispanic blacks.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada — Questionable Answers to a Questionable Question
TL;DR: The authors report that the difference between the United States and Canada in outlays for health care administration seems to be increasing.
Journal ArticleDOI
Access to therapy in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 1989-1992.
Neil M.H. Graham,Lisa P. Jacobson,Victor Kuo,Joan S. Chmiel,Hal Morgenstern,Sharon L. Zucconi +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe trends in the utilization of antiretroviral therapy, antivirals, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis, and antifungal prophynaxis and determine whether factors such as clinical status, health services utilization, insurance status, income, education and race were associated with access to therapy.
Related Papers (5)
Time to intervene: preventing the spread of HIV / AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa.
Roudi-Fahimi F,Eliane Bio,Roberto Eduardo Bittar,Marcelo Zugaib,Adu-Oppong A,Richard M. Grimes,Michael W. Ross,Risser J,Kessie G,Leickness C. Simbayi,Seth C. Kalichman,Anna Strebel,Allanise Cloete,N. Henda,Nintachan P,Moon Mw,Bearinger Lh,Sieving Re,Ferguson J,Sharma,W.P. Modotte,Rogério Dias,Fernando Frei,D.S. Dias,Flávio Ferreira Fernandes,Simone da Nóbrega Tomaz Moreira,Carmen Oliveira Medeiros Melo,Geraldez Tomaz,de Azevedo Gd,Márcia Regina Vitolo,Boscaini C,Gisele Ane Bortolini,Mukasa Kk +32 more