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. 2006 Jun;96(6):1091-7.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.054759. Epub 2006 May 2.

Prevalence of HIV infection among young adults in the United States: results from the Add Health study

Martina Morris  1 , Mark S Handcock, William C Miller, Carol A Ford, John L Schmitz, Marcia M Hobbs, Myron S Cohen, Kathleen M Harris, J Richard Udry
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Prevalence of HIV infection among young adults in the United States: results from the Add Health study

Martina Morris et al. Am J Public Health. 2006 Jun.

Abstract

Objectives: We estimated HIV prevalence rates among young adults in the United States.

Methods: We used survey data from the third wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a random sample of nearly 19000 young adults initiated in 1994-1995. Consenting respondents were screened for the presence of antibodies to HIV-1 in oral mucosal transudate specimens. We calculated prevalence rates, accounting for survey design, response rates, and test performance.

Results: Among the 13184 participants, the HIV prevalence rate was 1.0 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.4, 1.7). Gender-specific prevalence rates were similar, but rates differed markedly between non-Hispanic Blacks (4.9 per 1000; 95% CI=1.8, 8.7) and members of other racial/ethnic groups (0.22 per 1000; 95% CI=0.00, 0.64).

Conclusions: Racial disparities in HIV in the United States are established early in the life span, and our data suggest that 15% to 30% of all cases of HIV occur among individuals younger than 25 years.

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FIGURE 1—
Add Health wave I and wave II cumulative sexual exposure index differentials, by response status in wave III. Note. Shown are means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the wave I and wave II cumulative sexual exposure indexes for 3 groups of Add Health survey participants: those who provided a usable specimen in wave III, those who participated in earlier waves but refused either the interview or the HIV test in wave III, and those who participated in earlier waves but either were not interviewed for other reasons in wave III or provided an unusable specimen. Number of sexual partners (both male and female) was multiplied by a prevalence differential factor for location (1 = rural, 2 = semiurban, 5 = urban) to estimate sexual exposure (see “Results” for details).
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