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Springer (part of Springer Nature), Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 4(16), p. 751-755

DOI: 10.1007/s10903-013-9863-z

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Late Presentation and Loss to Follow-Up of Immigrants Newly Diagnosed with HIV in the HAART Era

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Abstract

To compare clinical characteristics and therapeutic management of newly HIV-diagnosed immigrants to natives. Patients with a first HIV diagnosis from 1996 to 2010 were included. Of 716 new diagnoses, 85 (12 %) were immigrants. Migrants were younger, more frequently females and sexually infected, less likely to voluntarily request testing, and less HCV-coinfected. Late presenters (CD4