according to the report, has the highest rate of HIV-related deaths in the country.The Southern AIDS Coalition, the Center for Health Policy, and Inequalities Research at Duke University, and the Duke Global Health Institute produced the report, titled HIV in the U.S.
Deep South: Trends from 2008-2019. It found that while the Deep South’s nine states possess 29 percent of the country’s population in 2019, it still accounted for almost 44 percent of new HIV diagnoses.
Those states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.The report's release coincided with the third Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on August 20.“This report documents the most currently available data on HIV.