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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2023 Apr 5;37(8):1285–1296. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003565

Figure 2. Combinations Associated with Achievement of Durable Viral Suppression, Howard Brown Health, 2012-2019 (n=4,787).

Figure 2.

Notes:

1Abbreviations of factors: hou – no permanent housing, mh – has mental health disorder, pov – experiencing poverty, ins – not insured, sub – has substance use disorder. Addition of a tilde (“~”) creates the inverse of the factor (e.g., ~hou means has permanent housing, ~mh means does NOT have a mental health disorder). The asterisk (“*”) refers to the logic operator “AND” (e.g., ~hou*~mh means “has permanent housing” AND “has no mental health disorder”).

2Abbreviations of labels: bi -bisexual, cis – cisgender, gay – gay or lesbian, het – heterosexual, trans - transgender

3Each sub-figure (e.g., 2A, 2B) contains the combinations identified to be associated with DVS. Row names reflect sufficient combinations for DVS. For example, the whole sample (2A) identified five combinations for DVS. The first row in 2A “~mh * ~pov * ~ins * ~sub” is read as follows: A person with “no mental health disorder AND not experiencing poverty AND has insurance AND has no substance use disorder” likely achieved DVS (i.e., at least 85% of the group with this combination achieved DVS).

4To facilitate visual comparison across groups and pattern identification, we converted combinations to color-coded tables. Each cell in the table represents the setting of a condition. Blue means is in a favorable setting (e.g., “~hou” or has permanent housing, “~mh” or no mental health disorder) while Red is in an unfavorable setting (e.g., “hou” or no permanent housing, “mh” or has a mental health disorder). White means the factor is not part of the combination. The first row in 2A are all favorable settings and are thus all blue. Housing was not mentioned in the combination and is set to white. The second row has three factors, two positive (“~hou” and “~sub”) and one negative (“pov”).

5The numbers in parentheses are “raw coverage for sufficiency” which is how much of the DVS is explained by the combination. This number ranges from 0 to 1 and the closer to one means the more important a combination is for the group. Since these are raw coverages, the numbers will not add up to one.

6 Sample only included complete case data. Subgroup sizes are in Supplemental Table 4, Supplemental Digital Content 2