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Public Health

Volume 155, February 2018, Pages 59-61
Public Health

Short Communication
Characteristics of HIV screening among New Jersey adults aged 18 years or older post-Hurricane Sandy, 2014

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    Little is known about the characteristics of HIV screening among adults residing in New Jersey post-Hurricane Sandy.

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    In New Jersey, HIV screening was positively associated with the need for access-to-care post-Hurricane Sandy.

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    Stakeholders should integrate HIV screening into routine medical treatment, to improve public health practice in New Jersey.

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Acknowledgments

Data for this study come from the New Jersey Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (http://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/njbrfs/), which is administered by the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics at the New Jersey Department of Health.

Ethical approval

This study was approved by the Walden University's Institutional Review Board (no. 11-11-16-0280041) and the New Jersey Department of Health's affiliated Institutional Review Board (no. Pro2016001326), located at Rowan University.

Funding

This research did not receive any

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