Risk Factors for HIV Disease Progression in a Rural Southwest American Indian Population

• Published in: Public health reports (1974) Vol. 125; no. 4_suppl; pp. 43 - 50
• Main Authors: Iralu, Jonathan, Duran, Bonnie, Pearson, Cynthia R., Jiang, Yizhou, Foley, Kevin, Harrison, Melvin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Association of Schools of Public Health 01.07.2010; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adhesion; AIDS; Alcohol; Alcohol abuse; Alcoholic beverages; Alcoholism; American Indians; Bivariate analysis; CD4 antigen; CD4 Lymphocyte Count; Collaboration; Criminal punishment; Data collection; Data processing; Disease Progression; Drug abuse; Economic factors; Family income; Female; Folk medicine; Gender; Healing; HIV; HIV Infections - economics; HIV Infections - ethnology; HIV Infections - therapy; Household income; Human immunodeficiency virus; Human immunodeficiency virus 1; Humans; Imprisonment; Income; Indians, North American; Male; Mathematical models; Medication Adherence; Medicine; Medicine, Traditional - utilization; Native Americans; Native North Americans; Prisoners; Public health; Regression analysis; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Risk Factors; Rural areas; Rural communities; Rural Population; Social factors; Socioeconomic factors; Southwestern United States; Traditional medicine; Viral Load; Viruses; Southwestern United States

Objectives. Risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression among American Indians (Als) have been poorly characterized. We assessed the impact of socioeconomic factors and use of traditional healing on HIV disease progression in a rural Al community. Methods. From January 20...