/US-law-and-HIV

Data files and code to analyze the association between criminal HIV exposure laws in the United States and HIV epidemiology

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Association between laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States and HIV epidemiology

This is the source code and data files required to replicate the results described in:

(Citation to be updated)

The project explores the effect of state laws that criminalize HIV exposure along with various socio-economic factors on HIV epidemiology in the United States. Two specific outcomes are investigated: i) the proportion of people living with HIV diagnosed, and ii) annual percentage change in HIV prevalence.

Please cite the paper above, if you use our code or data in any form or create a derivative work.

Dependencies

The R codes use the following free R libraries

Authors

  • Pratha Sah (Georgetown University)
  • Meagan C. Fitzpatrick (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
  • Abhishek Pandey (Yale School of Public Health)
  • Alison P. Galvani (Yale School of Public Health)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details