From the Newsfeed- Poverty Linked to HIV Rates in the Southern United States
Counties in the South with the highest HIV rates are among the poorest in the United States—about one in five people in the most HIV-affected counties in the South live below the federal poverty line, USA Today reports. New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that high HIV rates are closely tied to poverty: families with household incomes less than $10,000 a year were 10 times more likely to have HIV than people whose household incomes are greater than $50,000. Click here to read more.
Click here to read the POZ feature story on HIV in the South.
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