Why the South is the epicenter of the AIDS crisis in America

September 2024 ยท 1 minute read

GWEN IFILL:

Tonight, we continue our series "The End of AIDS?" Yesterday, we looked at San Francisco and at one of the nation's most ambitious plans to curtail AIDS. Tonight, we turn to a city where the struggle is much more difficult.

Atlanta, Georgia, and much of the Southeast is, by some measures, the epicenter of America's AIDS crisis, and as correspondent William Brangham and producer Jason Kane report, the barriers to stemming the epidemic there are enormous. This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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