The HIV epidemic remains centered in the South, health officials say. And the region must overcome several factors before this disease burden will ease, they add.
More than half of the new HIV diagnoses in 2016 – about 20,000 — were in the South, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official told an Atlanta conference last week.
Of those Southern cases, two-thirds were from male-to-male sexual contact, Dr. Eugene McCray, director of the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said at a Center For AIDS Research symposium at Emory University. One in five new diagnoses were among women.
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