The Many States of HIV in America—Treatment as prevention promises to help the infected and dramatically slow the spread of the virus, but the epidemic's changing demographics present myriad challenges in this diverse country. This spring, Science met with HIV-infected people, at-risk communities, researchers, caregivers, health officials, and advocates in 10 U.S. cities, traveling to the Deep South and the West and East coasts to see the varied epidemics and the local responses up close. [Read the full article]
The AIDSVu Interactive Map charts HIV infections in the United States county by county. Created by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, the map takes surveillance data gathered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and puts it into a heat map of each county in 44 of the 50 cooperating states. The brainchild of epidemiologist Patrick Sullivan, who worked on HIV/AIDS surveillance at CDC for 14 years before leaving for Emory in 2008, the map makes mind-numbing data come to life.