In New Offensive Against HIV, Metro Atlanta Is A Battleground

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February 11th, 2019

The Trump administration’s plan will deploy the people and prevention and treatment strategies needed to reduce new HIV infections by 75 percent over the next five years, with the hope of a 90 percent reduction within 10 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield.

Luis Romero / Associated Press file

The map of the United States shows four blue dots clustered in northern Georgia. They represent the metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Cobb.

It’s not exactly surprising that the four — the most populous in our state — are among 48 counties in the nation that the Trump administration is targeting for its plan to stop the spread of HIV.

President Donald Trump announced the plan in his State of the Union address last week.

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