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This study sought to understand the relationship between individual- and structural-level barriers, and poor retention for persons living with HIV\/AIDS in Atlanta, GA.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods:<\/jats:title>\n \n We administered a survey, through interviews, with HIV-infected patients continuously retained in care for 6 years (\u201ccontinuously retained,\u201d n = 32) and patients with recent gaps in care (\u201cunretained\u201d n = 27). We assessed individual-level protective factors for successful engagement (self-efficacy, resilience, perceived social support, and disclosure), risk factors for poor engagement (substance use, mental illness, and stigma), and structural\/systemic-level barriers (financial and housing instability, transportation, food insecurity, communication barriers, and incarceration history). Chi-square and Mann\u2013Whitney\n U<\/jats:italic>\n tests were used to compare the 2 populations.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results:<\/jats:title>\n Both continuously retained and unretained populations had high rates of prior viral suppression but few unretained patients were virologically suppressed upon return to care (11%). Younger age, crack cocaine use, food insecurity, financial instability, housing instability, and phone number changes in the past year were significantly more likely to be present in the unretained population.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n Our findings suggest the need for targeted risk assessment tools to predict the highest-risk patients for poor retention whereby public health interventions can be directed to those individuals.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1097\/qai.0000000000001242","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,11]],"date-time":"2017-01-11T18:21:11Z","timestamp":1484158871000},"page":"S113-S120","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":64,"title":["An Exploratory Study to Assess Individual and Structural Level Barriers Associated With Poor Retention and Re-engagement in Care Among Persons Living With 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