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The American South has the highest HIV rates in the country[1], accounting for more than half of new HIV diagnoses nationwide in 2023. This is despite growing availability of a highly effective HIV prevention medication[2] that has made it possible to live a long, healthy life with this once fatal disease.
This medication – called preexposure prophylaxis, or PrEP[3] – reduces the risk of HIV transmission by over 99% when...