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Research in the Area of HIV/AIDS Reported from University of South Carolina

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 3rd, 2011

2011 OCT 3 -- "We used existing data systems to examine sexually transmitted disease (STD) and HIV/AIDS diagnosis rates and explore potential county-level associations between HIV/AIDS diagnosis rates and socioeconomic disadvantage. Using South Carolina county data, we constructed multivariate ring maps to spatially visualize syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV/AIDS diagnosis rates; gender- and race-specific HIV/AIDS diagnosis rates; and three measures of socioeconomic disadvantage an unemployment index, a poverty index, and the Townsend index of social deprivation," scientists in Columbia, South Carolina report.

"Statistical analyses were performed to...

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