Georgia’s HIV Problem Hitting Hard In Rural Areas

Metro Atlanta is often characterized as the epicenter of Georgia’s HIV crisis.

Earlier this year, in fact, President Trump announced an anti-HIV plan targeting four populous counties in greater Atlanta — Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Cobb — among 48 counties in the nation.

But many rural Georgia counties, though their overall populations are not large, have high rates of HIV, says Aaron Siegler, an associate professor at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.