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ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2021

Effect of Medicaid Expansions on HIV Diagnoses and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use.

Bita Fayaz Farkhad, David R Holtgrave, Dolores Albarracín

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Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bita Fayaz FarkhadDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. Electronic address: bitaf@illinois.edu.
David R HoltgraveSchool of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York.
Dolores AlbarracínDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USUniversity at Albany, State University of New York · US

Funding

Digital, Community-Led, Social Action Initiative to Reduce Opioid Vulnerability and HIV/HCV in Rural Areas of the Midwest and AppalachiaDP1DA048570 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2019 to 2023
$4.0M
Mining Social Media Messages for HIV Testing and Prevention CommunicationR01MH114847 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2018 to 2022
$2.9M
Development and validation of regional models of HIV vulnerabilities and solutionsR01AI147487 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2019 to 2022
$2.4M
Efficacy and Effectiveness of Multi-Behavior Interventions Relevant to HIVR01MH094241 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALBARRACIN, DOLORES · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI147487NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA048570NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094241NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH114847
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIncreased insurance coverage and access to health care can increase identification of undiagnosed HIV infection and use of HIV prevention services such as pre-exposure prophylaxis. This study investigates whether the Medicaid expansions facilitated by the Affordable Care Act had these effects.

methodsA difference-in-differences design was used to estimate the effects of the Medicaid expansions using data on HIV diagnoses per 100,000 population, awareness of HIV status, and pre-exposure prophylaxis use. The analyses involved first calculating differences in new diagnoses and pre-exposure prophylaxis use before and after the expansions and then comparing these differences between treatment counties (i.e., all counties in states that expanded Medicaid) and control counties (i.e., all counties in states that did not expand Medicaid). Further analyses to investigate mechanisms addressed associations with HIV incidence, rates of sexually transmitted infections, and substance use. Analyses were conducted between August 2019 and July 2020.

resultsMedicaid expansions were associated with an increase in HIV diagnoses of 0.508 per 100,000 population, or 13.9% (p=0.037), particularly for infections contracted via injection drug use and among low-income, rural counties with a high share of pre-Affordable Care Act uninsured rates that were most likely to be affected by the expansions. In addition, Medicaid expansions were associated with improvements in the knowledge of HIV status and pre-exposure prophylaxis use. There was no impact of the expansions on incident HIV, substance use, or sexually transmitted infection rates with the exception of gonorrhea, which decreased after the expansions. Altogether, these results suggest that the changes in new HIV diagnoses, awareness of HIV status, and pre-exposure prophylaxis were not simply because of a higher incidence or an increase in infection risk.

conclusionsMedicaid expansions were associated with increases in the percentage of people living with HIV who are aware of their status and pre-exposure prophylaxis use. Expanding public health insurance may be an avenue for curbing the HIV epidemic.

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HIV InfectionsPre-Exposure ProphylaxisHealth Services AccessibilityHumansInsurance CoverageMedicaidMedically UninsuredPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActUnited States

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PMID33509564
PMCPMC7903489
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