{"id":1029,"date":"2013-12-06T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/the-deep-south-is-the-latest-epicenter-of-the-hiv-epidemic.html"},"modified":"2013-12-06T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:01:00","slug":"the-deep-south-is-the-latest-epicenter-of-the-hiv-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/the-deep-south-is-the-latest-epicenter-of-the-hiv-epidemic.html","title":{"rendered":"The Deep South Is the Latest Epicenter of the HIV Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Miami. Baton Rouge. Jacksonville. Columbia, South Carolina: These are not the places that immediately come to mind when considering America\u2019s HIV epidemic. But in the ranking of US cities with the highest HIV rates, they are numbers one, two, three, and six, respectively.<\/span><\/div>\n
On Thursday the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>ran an important\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0by Donald McNeil Jr. about the \u201cnew face\u201d of HIV\u2014 young, poor black and Hispanic men who have sex with men. One thing not mentioned in the article\u2014which focuses on New York City\u2014is the geography of the epidemic, which is now concentrated and most deadly in the southern states. While only 37 percent of Americans live in the South, half of new HIV infections originate there. Eight of the ten states with the highest rate of infection are in the south, as are nine of the ten states with the highest AIDS fatalities rates.<\/span><\/div>\n
McNeil focuses mostly on the scarcity of resources available to fund targeted messaging in black and Hispanic communities, and that\u2019s certainly a problem. But the regional dynamics of HIV, and the fact that young men of color who have sex with men actually engage in\u00a0less\u00a0<\/em>high-risk behavior than their white cohorts suggest that messaging isn\u2019t the only thing needed. McNeil\u2019s conclusion is that when it comes the spread of HIV among young men of color, \u201cthe prospects for change look grim\u201d because \u201cthe national response is fragmented and hesitant.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
There are two policies on the table that could have a profound effect on the rate of new infections in the US, which has hovered near 50,000 new cases a year for a decade: the expansion of Medicaid, and comprehensive immigration reform. The implications of these policies for HIV are magnified by the fact that their impact would be particularly strong in the south.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Miami. Baton Rouge. Jacksonville. Columbia, South Carolina: These are not the places that immediately come to mind when considering America\u2019s HIV epidemic. But in the ranking of US cities with the highest HIV rates, they are numbers one, two, three, and six, respectively. On Thursday the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0ran an important\u00a0story\u00a0by Donald McNeil Jr. about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Deep South Is the Latest Epicenter of the HIV Epidemic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Miami. Baton Rouge. Jacksonville. 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