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The Bronx, one of the five boroughs
of New York City (NYC), has a high HIV burden. In the current study, the
research team evaluated the impact of HIV testing efforts, including the 2008
campaign called “The Bronx Knows.”
Data from an annual telephone survey
representative of NYC adults were used to compare 2005 and 2009 estimates of
HIV testing prevalence among residents of the Bronx and to identify correlates
of testing. The team used NYC HIV surveillance data to evaluate changes in the
percentage of persons who concurrently received a diagnosis of HIV infection
and AIDS, an indicator of delayed diagnosis of HIV infection.
Relative increases of 14 percent and
32 percent were found in the proportion of Bronx adults who had ever tested for
HIV and who had been tested in the past year, respectively (p
A 22 percent decrease in the number
of people concurrently diagnosed with HIV and AIDS was seen from 2005 to 2009,
and the decreases generally took place among subgroups that were experiencing
increases in HIV testing.
“Community-wide testing in the Bronx
increased the proportion of people with known HIV status and reduced the
proportion with delayed diagnosis,” the authors concluded.
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empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
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