Journal of Drug Issues
Volume 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-172

Immigration and HIV among migrant workers in rural southern Florida (Article)

Weatherby N.L.* , Virginia McCoy H. , Bletzer K.V. , McCoy C.B. , Inciardi J.A. , McBride D.C. , Forney M.A.
  • a Comprehensive Drug Research Center (CDRC), Department of Epidemiology, Public Health of the University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Medical College of Georgia, Comprehensive Drug Research Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1400 N.W. 10th Avenue (D-93), Miami, FL 33136, United States
  • b Comprehensive Drug Research Center (CDRC), Department of Epidemiology, Public Health of the University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, Behavioral Sciences Department, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, United States
  • c Department of Public Health, Florida International University, Health Services Research Center, Miami, FL, United States
  • d Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
  • e CDRC and Health Services Research Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Epidemiology and Public Health, Miami, FL, United States, Institute for the Prevention of Addictions, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States
  • f Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, University of Delaware, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Delaware, United States
  • g Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Miami, FL, United States

Abstract

We studied HIV seropositivity among a targeted sample of migrant workers who used drugs, primarily crack cocaine, and their sexual partners in rural southern Florida from 1993 to 1995. We enrolled men and women who were born in the United States (n=369) or in other countries (n=174). Overall, 11.2% of the sample were HIV positive, including 18% of Blacks from the United States, and about 8% of non-Hispanic whites from the United States, Blacks from the Caribbean, and persons from Central or South America. No Hispanics from the United States or the Caribbean, but 3.4% of Hispanics from Mexico, were HIV positive. In logistic regression analyses, race/ethnicity, gender, and age were moot highly associated with HIV seropositivity. Immigration status, current drug use, and current sexual activity were not related to HIV seropositivity. HIV prevention programs must help reduce heterosexual transmission of HIV associated with drug use both locally and where migrants travel and work.

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male controlled study ethnic group female human major clinical study Aged sexual behavior Human immunodeficiency virus infection migrant worker Article cocaine United States immigration adult drug abuse
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DOI: 10.1177/002204269702700111
ISSN: 00220426
Cited by: 19
Original Language: English