According to HIV.gov, Black individuals accounted for 40% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2021 while only accounting for 14% of the overall population. Carlos Mahaffey, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Public Health, said these disparities are further exacerbated when breaking down that segment, noting that Black men who have sex with men experience particularly high rates of HIV occurrence, which has been especially apparent in the South and Midwest regions of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[1585,263,425,579,1586,1589,1588,240,666,1587],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-health","category-research","tag-carlos-mahaffey","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-public-health","tag-health-equity","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-inequities","tag-lgbtq-2","tag-purdue-university","tag-sexual-health","tag-sexual-health-research-lab"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n