Map Of The Day

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Cohn captions:

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control, [researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, working with Gilead Sciences] developed online, interactive maps depicting where AIDS infections were most prevalent—and where new cases were cropping up most frequently. They called the project AIDSVu. Its principal researcher is Patrick Sullivan, an epidemiologist who worked at the CDC before coming to Emory. … The South has just 37 percent of the country’s population, Sullivan notes. But it has nearly 50 percent of the new HIV diagnoses.