AIDS -- the South's shame

In the rural Deep South, HIV is more than an infection; it's a social illness affecting a deeply entrenched underclass.

More than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, a combination of safe-sex education and a new generation of pharmaceuticals has left many Americans convinced that HIV/AIDS is a problem that has been, if not solved, at least addressed. But that's certainly not true in the American South, which accounts for nearly 50% of all new HIV infections in the United States.

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