The Characteristics of Youth With Missed HIV Visits in Alabama

Jiaying Hao; Dustin M Long; Heather M Relyea Ashley; Henna Budhwani; Tina Y Simpson; Samantha V Hill

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofae086

The Characteristics of Youth With Missed HIV Visits in Alabama

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Feb 14;11(3):ofae086. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae086. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Jiaying Hao^{1

2}, Dustin M Long¹, Heather M Relyea Ashley², Henna Budhwani³, Tina Y Simpson⁴, Samantha V Hill²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
³ College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Abstract

Gaps in knowledge remain related to understanding missed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) visits and youth with HIV (YWH). This study examined data from an Alabama academic HIV clinic with clients aged 16 to 24 years old and found that non virally suppressed and older YWH were associated with missed visits among YWH.

Keywords: HIV; missed visits; retention in care; youth.