Undiagnosed HIV prevalence Among adults and adolescents in the United Sates at the End of 2006 Campsmith, DDS,MPH, from the CDC, Atlanta Georgia, JAcquir Immune Defic Syndrome
10:57 13.04.2010The objective of this study was to describe adults/adolescents living with undiagnosed HIV infection in the United States at the end of 2006, The authors used the cumulative HIV incidence using an extended back calculation model (using both HIV and AIDS data, the time of first diagnosis with HIV, and disease severity at diagnosis) and estimated cumulative death to get the undiagnosed HIV Prevalence.
They estimated that 1,106,400 adults/adolescents 95% confidence level) were living with HIV in the United States at the end of 2006: overall 21 % or 221,299-244,000 95% confidence level were undiagnosed. Whites had the lowest percentage undiagnosed, Hispanics/Latinos had 21% undiagnosed, blacks l8.8% undiagnosed, Indians 25.8%, and Asians had 29.5% undiagnosed. Persons with a behavioral risk of injections drug use had the lowest percentage of undiagnosed at l4%. Men exposed through heterosexual contact had the highest undiagnosed 26.7 % and men who have sex with men had 23.5 % undiagnosed. They concluded that differences in undiagnosed HIV were evident across demographic and behavior groups. Effective testing programs and early access to treatment and prevention services are necessary to reduce undiagnosed HIV infections and HIV prevalence
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation had an extensive program throughout the world last year to test 1 million people for HIV. They were successful. That is what is needed in American an extensive program in testing and subsequent early treatment to decrease the number of undiagnosed HIV/AIDS patients and also to decrease the transmission and the number of people dying from the infection.
Early treatment after testing + is still the most effective way of preventing deaths and non-AIDS related complications and deaths.
