title: Association between community socioeconomic position and HIV diagnosis rate among adults and adolescents in the United States, 2005 to 2009.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and HIV diagnosis rates in the United States and whether racial/ethnic disparities in diagnosis rates persist after control for SEP.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used cases of HIV infection among persons aged 13 years and older, diagnosed 2005 through 2009 in 37 states and reported to national HIV surveillance through June 2010, and US Census data, to examine associations between county-level SEP measures and 5-year average annual HIV diagnosis rates overall and among race/ethnicity-sex groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The HIV diagnosis rate was significantly higher for individuals in the low-SEP tertile than for those in the high-SEP tertile (rate ratios for low- vs high-SEP tertiles range = 1.68-3.38) except for White males and Hispanic females. The SEP disparities were larger for minorities than for Whites. Racial disparities persisted after we controlled for SEP, urbanicity, and percentage of population aged 20 to 50 years, and were high in the low-SEP tertile for males and in low- and high-SEP tertiles for females.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings support continued prioritization of HIV testing, prevention, and treatment to persons in economically deprived areas, and Blacks of all SEP levels.
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. fei8@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prejean
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McDavid Harrison
authors.forename: Xiangming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D044469:Racial Groups; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult