S. Carolina's Haley Slams Door on HIV Prevention

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As part of a documentary team researching the impact of HIV/AIDS on black women in the rural South, I have learned these dire facts.

Eight of the 10 states with the most new cases of HIV infection and AIDS diagnoses are in the South.

African Americans account for 46 percent of all HIV diagnoses, and half of all rural AIDS cases.

Black women are disproportionately impacted at the national level (they make up 64 percent of new AIDS diagnoses) and face greater risk in southern states like South Carolina, which ranks fourth in the country for the number of African Americans living with AIDS.

Federal funding, however, is not following the epidemic and South Carolina is a particularly dire example of what that means.

In South Carolina, lawmakers cut the state's prevention funds to zero in 2010. Now it is the only state in the country that does not fund prevention, despite the fact that the state has the highest rate of heterosexual transmission in the nation, with black women accounting for a quarter of HIV/AIDS cases.

http://womensenews.org/story/hivaids/121019/s-carolinas-haley-slams-door-hiv-prevention#.UIWu0W_A_kV

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