Open AccessCharacteristics and Behaviors Associated With HIV Infection Among Inmates in the North Carolina Prison System
Author(s) -
David L. Rosen,
Victor J. Schoenbach,
David A. Wohl,
Becky L. White,
Paul W. Stewart,
Carol E. Golin
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.133389
Subject(s) - serostatus , medicine , demography , logistic regression , coinfection , odds ratio , risk factor , prison , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , gerontology , immunology , psychology , viral load , criminology , sociology
We identified factors associated with testing HIV positive in a prison system performing voluntary HIV testing on inmates and estimated the number of undetected HIV cases to evaluate the efficacy of risk-factor-based HIV testing.