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Declines in rates of new HIV diagnoses and related mortality, and pharmacologic advances resulting in less frequent dosing of therapies, are undeniable individual and public health successes in the USA. Yet even with these successes, the geographic disparities in the epidemic are clear. In 2019, new HIV infections and those at risk for acquiring HIV are concentrated disproportionately, and in many cases numerically, more in the southern USA. The South has the most states with the highest lifetime risk of an HIV diagnosis, people living with HIV (PLWH), or who reside in non-urban communities than any other region. It is also the geographic region with the greatest inequality in who is achieving HIV viral suppression (VS) even during this time of advancements in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
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Rawlings, M.K., Parham-Hopson, D. (2021). HIV in the South. In: Ojikutu, B., Stone, V. (eds) HIV in US Communities of Color. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48744-7_8
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