Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee made waves in early 2023, when he rejected millions of dollars in federal HIV prevention programming. Since then, the state has been replacing that money, but that new process is already causing damage, according to public health experts.
How Nashville has backtracked on HIV despite effective prevention options
The South represents more than half of all new HIV cases in the U.S., and the region is making slower progress than the rest of the nation, according to the latest HIV/AIDS figures kept by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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