AIDSVu
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University launched AIDSVu (www.AIDSVu.org), an interactive online map that, 30 years into the epidemic, provides for the first time, the most detailed publicly available view of the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States by state and county. The data pinpoint areas of the country where HIV prevalence rates are the highest, and where the needs for prevention, testing and treatment services are the most urgent.
The data on AIDSVu maps can be viewed by race/ethnicity at both the state and county levels. AIDSVu shows that HIV disproportionately affects black and Hispanic Americans, and that these disparities exist in both major metropolitan areas and rural areas.
AIDSVu is also the first online tool to link state and county-level HIV prevalence data with local HIV testing sites, information about state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) and estimates of the percentage of HIV diagnoses that are made late in the course of the disease. AIDSVu will be updated on an ongoing basis as new data and information become available.
If users zoom in to look at the data for Michigan they will see a picture of HIV similar to what the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) has available on our website: www.michigan.gov/hivstd. That is, HIV is concentrated in Southeast Michigan (65% of cases are in the Detroit metro area) although virtually every county in the state has someone living with HIV. Both the Michigan website and AIDS Vu will link people to places in their community where they can be tested for HIV.
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