The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars a year into certain states, counties and U.S. territories in a specific push since 2019 to curb HIV in areas with the highest infection rates, hoping to reach most of the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV.
But in more than half of the 57 areas getting this money, HIV diagnosis rates among Latinos increased between 2019 and 2022 while declining for other racial and ethnic groups, a KFF Health News/@AssociatedPress analysis found.
Find out more about what’s being done at apnews.com/health.
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