Atlanta LGBTQ advocates are celebrating the opening of a new HIV-care clinic. The clinic also offers broader sexual health care and social-support services geared to its patient population of mostly Black gay men.
Georgia has among the highest rates of HIV infection in the nation, ranking fourth for the total number of new diagnoses of HIV infection behind Florida, California and Texas, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The majority of Georgia cases are among men who have sex with men, the Georgia Department of Public Health reported. And Black men accounted for nearly 71% of the state’s HIV diagnoses in 2021.
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