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Title: Rural Virginians cope with limited HIV resources
Post by: LostInTime on August 17, 2007, 08:27:06 AM
Washington Blade (http://www.washblade.com/2007/8-17/news/localnews/11074.cfm)
ELIZABETH PERRY
Friday, August 17, 2007

"In 2000, the rate of new AIDS diagnoses was three times higher for the South than for other rural areas in the U.S.," it said. "In certain areas of the South, the rate of HIV/AIDS diagnoses is almost as high in rural areas as it is in urban areas."