AIDS directors seek help to fight epidemic in the South. Call to action for more money, resources, research.
As AIDS spreads rapidly in the South, a new picture is emerging, which shows the epidemic is becoming increasingly rural, female, African-American, and poor. Two new studies are helping identifying why so many rural Southerners avoid the health care systems and don't trust their doctors about HIV infection. Clinicians need to address high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome in HIV-infected patients living in the rural South.
D001741:Black or African American; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology