10:44 AM, June 22, 2009
California and New York have the largest number of HIV-positive people in the country, but Georgia, surprisingly, has some of the highest incidence rates for the infection, according to the first county-by-county map of HIV infections and AIDS cases. Of the 48 U.S. counties with the highest prevalence rates for HIV infections, 25 of them are in Georgia, according to the data compiled by the National Minority Quality Forum, a nonprofit research organization. The high rate was attributed primarily to the large African American population in those counties and to poverty.
The two California counties with the highest prevalence rates were San Francisco, with a prevalence of 0.38%, and Marin, with a prevalence of 0.248%.
California and New York have the largest number of HIV-positive people in the country, but Georgia, surprisingly, has some of the highest incidence rates for the infection, according to the first county-by-county map of HIV infections and AIDS cases. Of the 48 U.S. counties with the highest prevalence rates for HIV infections, 25 of them are in Georgia, according to the data compiled by the National Minority Quality Forum, a nonprofit research organization. The high rate was attributed primarily to the large African American population in those counties and to poverty.
The two California counties with the highest prevalence rates were San Francisco, with a prevalence of 0.38%, and Marin, with a prevalence of 0.248%.