Changes in the AIDS epidemiologic situation in Puerto Rico following health care reform and the introduction of HAART Cambios en la situación epidemiológica del sida en Puerto Rico tras la reforma sanitaria y la introducción de la TARGA

• Main Authors: Doris V. Báez-Feliciano, James C. Thomas, María A. Gómez, Sandra Miranda, Diana M. Fernández, Miriam Velázquez, Eddy Ríos-Olivares, Robert F. Hunter-Mellado
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2005
• Subjects: Síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida; abuso de sustancias intravenosas; hispanoamericanos; Puerto Rico; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; substance abuse; intravenous; Hispanic Americans; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1a82da9b72e548859739fc318b966f65

OBJECTIVES: To compare the occurrence of AIDS as well as the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of AIDS patients in Puerto Rico before and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and the privatization of the island’s public health care system. METHODS: We compared...