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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 Mar;41(3):360–367. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01119

Exhibit 3:

Age-adjusted pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake, HIV risk estimates, and PrEP-to-need ratio estimates by race and ethnicity and sex

Race and ethnicity Predicted rate of PrEP uptake (%) BRFSS HIV risk (%)a HIV incidence rate (per 100,000)b PrEP-to-need ratio
Males (1) Females (2) Males (3) Females (4) Males (5) Females (6) Males (7) Females (8)
Black 0.23 0.06 16.2 0.8 57.1 11.9 4.0 5.0
Hispanic 0.16 0.02 11.3 5.5 25.3 2.5 6.3 8.0
White 0.29 0.03 12.2 11.5 14.6 1.8 19.9 16.7
Asian 0.18 0.02 11.7 17.1 12.5 1.1 14.4 18.2

SOURCES Columns 1 and 2: Authors’ calculations based on information from exhibit 2. Columns 3 and 4, see Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health, 2018 BRFSS Survey Data and Documentation (see note 25 in text). Columns 5 and 6, rates of newly diagnosed HIV are from California Department of Public Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Office of AIDS, Supplemental tables to the California HIV surveillance report—2018 (see note 27 in text). Columns 7 and 8, data are from authors’ calculations based on PrEP uptake information from exhibits 2 and A2 and HIV incidence rates from columns 5 and 6 (see online appendix, see note 30 in text).

a

Among adults in California with incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level.

b

Among adults in California with Medi-Cal.