The new face of America's HIV/AIDS epidemic is black men in mostly rural Southern states like Alabama. Men like me.
. If you think these headlines were from 1989, you'd be wrong—they're from the past two years. While we've made tremendous progress in the fight against HIV, the epidemic is still very real for too many, particularly in the South.
More than half of all new HIV infections in the United States are in the South and among black and Latinx people. Despite being home to only 38 percent of the country's population, Southern states experienced 52 percent of new HIV infections in 2017. The CDC has asserted that if conditions remain the same, one in two gay black men in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.
If Trump's goal is to be even remotely reachable in the South, we need increased federal funding, as well as a sustained and comprehensive effort to bring together the entire community of allies, advocates, scientists and policymakers to address stigma head on. Later, when I became a pastor, I did home visits in Alabama with families that refused to speak to their dying sons. I prayed with a hospitalized man in Atlanta who was unable to look anyone in the eye because of the psychological abuse he's endured living with HIV.We've developed extraordinarily effective new medicines, but science alone cannot end the HIV epidemic.
We're not acting alone. Longtime advocates from the private sector and national advocacy groups, like AIDS United and the National Association of County and City Health Officials, have been addressing this issue for some time. The private sector is using its platform to help address stigma, as well as play a role in addressing these issues.
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