HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report: Social Determinants of Health Among Adults with Diagnosed HIV Infection in 20 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2010

This report focuses on the social determinants of health (SDH) and its crossover to HIV rates in the United States. It explains that SDH refers to the overlapping social structures and economic systems that are responsible for most health inequities. Twelve tables break down rates of HIV diagnoses by indicators such as sex, age, area of residence, race, and transmission category. This report limits the data to adults older 18 and older to more accurately represent the population from which the SDH indicator variables were collected by the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). The numbers, percentages, and rates of diagnoses of HIV infection were based on data from the following areas: California (including Los Angeles County and San Francisco), Colorado, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois (Chicago only), Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia), Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (including Houston), Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.