title: HIV poses challenges for Southern states. Most people with AIDS in South are minorities.
abstract: Southern states have the most HIV/AIDS patients and often are least well-equipped to handle the problem. They also are challenged by an epidemic that is disproportionately African-American and that largely affects the poor.
mesh_terms: D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008913:Minority Groups; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology