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  • Read more: Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing
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    Southern Indiana’s HIV Outbreak: A Lesson on the Importance of Incentivizing HIV Testing

    By Mark Satta By 2015, major news outlets were reporting on what the CDC was calling “one of the worst documented outbreaks of HIV among IV users in the past two decades.” Between 2011 and 2015 over 200 people in southern Indiana’s Scott County acquired HIV. The primary source of the spread was the sharing…

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  • Read more: A needle in a haystack – finding the elusive solution to Indiana’s HIV Outbreak
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    A needle in a haystack – finding the elusive solution to Indiana’s HIV Outbreak

    By Nicolas Wilhelm, JD Scott County, Indiana, which only has a few thousand residents, has historically had an average of five HIV cases per year. Since December 2014, however, the county has seen an outbreak, with more than 140 newly diagnosed cases. Dr. Jonathan Mermin, the director of the National Center for HIV/AIDs, Viral Hepatitis,…