Death rates among people with HIV are more than twice as great in many Southern states compared with other states, even after adjusting for racial and age differences, according to a sobering new analysis reported by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers. The findings, published online ahead of print by the journal AIDS, also suggest that death rates among people with HIV are high even in states where overall HIV-associated death rates are low in relation to those of the general population.
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