Care of HIV-Infected Latinos in the United States: A Description of Calls to the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center

HIV disproportionately affects the Latino population in the United States. Little is known about clinicians who provide HIV care to the Latino community or the types of issues they face. This report presents descriptive analyses of calls made by clinicians who care for HIV-infected Latinos to two li...

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Published inThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 302 - 310
Main Authors Mahoney, Megan R., Khamarko, Kevin, Goldschmidt, Ronald H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.07.2008
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
Subjects
Adult
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
Antiretroviral drugs
Delivery of Health Care
Female
Health care
health care providers
Hispanic Americans
HIV
HIV Infections - ethnology
HIV Infections - therapy
Hotlines
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Latino/Hispanic
Male
Nursing
Pregnancy
Remote Consultation
United States
United States
United States > US
AIDS
HIV
health care providers
Latino/Hispanic
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Summary:HIV disproportionately affects the Latino population in the United States. Little is known about clinicians who provide HIV care to the Latino community or the types of issues they face. This report presents descriptive analyses of calls made by clinicians who care for HIV-infected Latinos to two lines of the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center, the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline) and the National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal HIV Hotline). Separate analyses of data from Latino clinicians are also presented. The majority of Warmline calls about Latino patients (81.0%) concerned antiretroviral treatment strategies or HIV-related conditions. More than half (54.3%) of perinatal-specific calls concerned HIV management during pregnancy and the care of HIV-exposed infants. Latino clinicians most frequently called about minority patients. This descriptive study adds to the growing literature about the care of the Latino HIV-infected patient. The Warmline and Perinatal HIV Hotline are resources for HIV care providers in the nursing and medical care of Latinos.
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ISSN:1055-3290
1552-6917
DOI:10.1016/j.jana.2008.05.002