Despite HIV/AIDS Suppression Advances, Socioeconomic Factors Prevent Widespread Treatment.

reports that 66 percent of the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are not undergoing treatment, and African-Americans and Latinos are less likely to stay in treatment than whites. Under the Ryan White Act, underinsured and uninsured patients have financial access to treatment and social services, but according to University of California Women’s HIV Program professor and director Dr. Edward Machtinger, “social determinants of health” – such as homelessness, domestic abuse, mental illness, poverty, and addiction – challenge HIV/AIDS patients’ ability or willingness to remain in treatment. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/30/health/hiv-treatment-disparity-us/