Impact of health insurance status among migrants from sub-Saharan Africa on access to health care and HIV testing in Germany: a participatory cross-sectional survey

• Main Authors: Johanna Müllerschön (Author), Carmen Koschollek (Author), Claudia Santos-Hövener (Author), Anna Kuehne (Author), Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn (Author), Viviane Bremer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Among all newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany in 2015, 16% originated from sub-Saharan Africa. Twelve percent of these infections were contracted within Germany and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa (misSA) are diagnosed later than Germans. Migrants, specifically those without he...