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By Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee to Review Data Systems for Monitoring HIV Care, Carol Mason Spicer, Morgan A. Ford

Nearly 1.2 million humans within the usa reside with HIV, and the quantity grows every year. In July 2010, the government published the nationwide HIV/AIDS procedure (NHAS), geared toward decreasing HIV transmission, expanding entry to care, bettering healthiness results, and decreasing health and wellbeing disparities for individuals residing with HIV. NHAS is designed to construct on cheap Care Act provisions that may raise entry to medical insurance for individuals with HIV.

A serious a part of federal efforts can be to competently display screen the scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the supply and good fortune of therapy and prevention courses. For assist in structuring its plans, the White condo place of work of nationwide AIDS coverage requested the IOM to arrange reviews – the 1st used to be published in March 2012 – on tracking HIV care within the U.S.

Data accumulated from a nationally consultant pattern of individuals with HIV can be utilized to assist visual display unit the influence of the ACA on well-being care assurance and usage. tracking will offer an superior technique of assessing the influence of the NHAS and the ACA on care got through individuals with HIV – wisdom which may tell destiny making plans and advisor capability redistribution of assets to enhance the potency and caliber of care and decrease healthiness disparities.

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By Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee to Review Data Systems for Monitoring HIV Care, Carol Mason Spicer, Morgan A. Ford

Nearly 1.2 million humans within the usa reside with HIV, and the quantity grows every year. In July 2010, the government published the nationwide HIV/AIDS procedure (NHAS), geared toward decreasing HIV transmission, expanding entry to care, bettering healthiness results, and decreasing health and wellbeing disparities for individuals residing with HIV. NHAS is designed to construct on cheap Care Act provisions that may raise entry to medical insurance for individuals with HIV.

A serious a part of federal efforts can be to competently display screen the scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the supply and good fortune of therapy and prevention courses. For assist in structuring its plans, the White condo place of work of nationwide AIDS coverage requested the IOM to arrange reviews – the 1st used to be published in March 2012 – on tracking HIV care within the U.S.

Data accumulated from a nationally consultant pattern of individuals with HIV can be utilized to assist visual display unit the influence of the ACA on well-being care assurance and usage. tracking will offer an superior technique of assessing the influence of the NHAS and the ACA on care got through individuals with HIV – wisdom which may tell destiny making plans and advisor capability redistribution of assets to enhance the potency and caliber of care and decrease healthiness disparities.

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Monitoring HIV Care in the United States: A Strategy for Generating National Estimates of HIV Care and Coverage

Nearly 1. 2 million humans within the usa reside with HIV, and the quantity grows every year. In July 2010, the government published the nationwide HIV/AIDS technique (NHAS), geared toward decreasing HIV transmission, expanding entry to care, bettering wellbeing and fitness results, and lowering future health disparities for individuals residing with HIV.

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TABLE 1-2 Females and Males in the United States Living with a Diagnosis of HIV, by Race and Ethnicity, Year-End 2009 Race or Ethnicity American Indian/Alaska Native Asian Black/African American Hispanic/Latino Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander White Multiple race Total Female Estimated Percent of HIVRate (per Diagnosed Number 100,000) People Number Male Estimated Percent of HIVRate (per Diagnosed 100,000) People Total Estimated Number 782 83 <1 2,218 245 <1 3,000 1,457 27 <1 6,816 138 1 8,273 114,721 764 61 214,464 1,612 37 329,185 31,753 190 17 117,101 647 20 148,854 108 83 <1 498 383 <1 606 36,587 44 19 235,610 297 40 272,197 3,083 188,688 225 154 2 24 7,908 585,197 617 496 1 76 10,991 773,885 SOURCE: CDC, 2012a, Table 17a.

S. Census, 2012b). PREPUBLICATION COPY: UNCORRECTED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Monitoring HIV Care in the United States: A Strategy for Generating National Estimates of HIV Care and Coverage INTRODUCTION 19 FIGURE 1-2 Percentage of racial and ethnic populations living with a diagnosis of HIV, year-end 2009. SOURCE: CDC, 2012a, Table 15a. 5 per 100,000, respectively) are comparable to that of whites (CDC, 2012a, Table 15a), their rates of HIV and AIDS diagnoses in 2010 were significantly greater.

9, Table 15a). The racial and ethnic distribution of males diagnosed with HIV in 2009 is similar to that of the entire population of diagnosed individuals in the United States (see Figures 1-2 and 1-3). TABLE 1-2 Females and Males in the United States Living with a Diagnosis of HIV, by Race and Ethnicity, Year-End 2009 Race or Ethnicity American Indian/Alaska Native Asian Black/African American Hispanic/Latino Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander White Multiple race Total Female Estimated Percent of HIVRate (per Diagnosed Number 100,000) People Number Male Estimated Percent of HIVRate (per Diagnosed 100,000) People Total Estimated Number 782 83 <1 2,218 245 <1 3,000 1,457 27 <1 6,816 138 1 8,273 114,721 764 61 214,464 1,612 37 329,185 31,753 190 17 117,101 647 20 148,854 108 83 <1 498 383 <1 606 36,587 44 19 235,610 297 40 272,197 3,083 188,688 225 154 2 24 7,908 585,197 617 496 1 76 10,991 773,885 SOURCE: CDC, 2012a, Table 17a.

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