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Explaining racial disparities in HIV incidence in black and white men who have sex with men in Atlanta, GA: a prospective observational cohort study
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describe factors associated racial disparities hiv human immunodeficiency virus incidence among men sex men msm united statesin longitudinal cohort black white hivnegative msm atlanta hiv incidence rates compared race incidence hazard ratios hrs black white msm estimated agescaled cox proportional hazards model changeinestimate approach used understand mediating timeindependent dependent factors accounted elevated hrthirtytwo incident hiv infections occurred among 260 black 302 white msm 843 personyears py followup hiv incidence higher among black msm 65100 py 95 confidence interval ci 4297 white msm 17100 py ci 0733 highest among young 1824 years black msm 109100 py ci 62176 unadjusted hazard hiv infection black msm 29 ci 1364 times white msm adjustment health insurance status partner race explained effectively racial disparityrelative white msm atlanta black msm particularly young black msm experienced higher hiv incidence attributable individual risk behaviors setting partner pool risk driver disparities also important maximize care treatment hivpositive msm