Turning a Hospital Stay into a Meaningful Bridge Back to HIV Care
Morgan Duerden
Less than half of people with HIV in the U.S. stay consistently connected to outpatient HIV care, a gap that limits access to lifesaving medications and increases the risk of HIV transmission. Hospitalizations are especially common among people who are already disconnected from care. Among the nearly 200,000 hospitalizations among persons with HIV in the US every year, more than half are persons previously diagnosed but not engaged in outpatient HIV care, and more than half of persons who are ne