Epidemiology

Immigrants often more at risk for HIV once they enter the United States

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 13th, 2003

In a study of 61,000 Californians who sought treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, researchers found that those foreign-born immigrants who were infected with HIV most likely contracted the virus once they arrived on U.S. soil.

The study, published in the December 2002 issue of American Journal of Public Health examined clients at several Los Angeles County public health centers from January 1993 through December 1999. Of the approximately 61,000 patients in the study, 23,000 were foreign-born, with the largest percentage of those patients born in Central America/Mexico. HIV infection was highest among female immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa at almost...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-01-13)

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