Informing California's Plan to Enhance HIV Screening in the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Leibowitz, Arleen; Tan, Diane
- Source
- AIDS Education & Prevention. Oct2021, Vol. 33 Issue 5, p377-394. 18p.
- Subject
- *DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections
*HIV prevention
*PREVENTION of epidemics
*BLACK people
*HISPANIC Americans
*MULTIVARIATE analysis
*MEDICAL screening
*RACE
*WHITE people
*ETHNIC groups
*SEXUAL partners
- Language
- ISSN
- 0899-9546
The CDC recommends that everyone have at least one HIV test in their lifetime. However, analyses of California Health Interview Survey data showed that in 2017 only half of Californians had ever received an HIV test. Non-Hispanic Black (64.8%) and Hispanic adults (54.7%) had higher lifetime testing rates than non-Hispanic White adults (48.8%). In multivariable analyses non-Hispanic African American adults had twice and Hispanic adults 1.2 times the odds of lifetime HIV testing as non-Hispanic White adults. The CDC recommends annual HIV testing for higher-risk individuals. Independent of race/ethnicity, heterosexual men with multiple sex partners had lower annual testing rates than other high-risk individuals. Annual testing was unrelated to education level and poverty, but was related to number of doctor visits. HIV screening rates among heterosexual men with multiple partners could be increased by targeting HIV screening to non-medical settings in California's eight Ending the HIV Epidemic counties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]