New index maps HIV prevention gaps across the South, revealing resource disparities

Residents in high-gap counties face significant barriers to HIV prevention and care, experiencing longer travel distances, delayed diagnoses, and gaps in ongoing treatment that perpetuate disease spread and poor health outcomes.

In the American South, where nearly half of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States occur, a team of researchers at the University of Mississippi has done what maps do best: made the invisible visible. By measuring not just where HIV spreads but where the systems meant to stop it are absent, they have revealed that 220 counties carry both the heaviest disease burden and the weakest prevention infrastructure — a convergence that falls, with troubling consistency, along lines of race and poverty. The tool they have built does not merely describe a health crisis; it traces the outline of a str

New index maps HIV prevention gaps across the South, revealing resource disparities

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