DC CFAR Director Dr. Alan Greenberg (GW) with Center Associate Ms. Lorena Segarra (GW), Clinical Population Sciences Core Co-Director Dr. Sam Simmens (GW), EHE Scientific Working Group Directors Dr. Amanda Castel and Michael Kharfen (DC Health), and Chief of the Critical Care Medicine Department at NIH Dr. Henry Masur (NIH) recently published a new article in the PLOS ONE Journal April 2021 entitled “Highly variable trends in rates of newly diagnosed HIV cases in U.S. hotspots, 2008-2017”.
The authors used publicly available data from CDC to examined historical trends in the average annual percent change (AAPC) in HIV diagnosis rates for the 57 EHE high incidence “hotspots” identified in the EHE initiative using Joinpoint analysis. The article assessed the ecologic association of various hotspot characteristics with changes in HIV rates over time using a multivariable regression model.