North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South

by Stephen J. Inrig

Book Overview

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic. Southern states claim the highest rates of new infections, the most AIDS-related deaths, and the largest number of adults and adolescents living with the virus. Moreover, the epidemic disproportionately affects African American communities across the region. Using the history of HIV in North Carolina as a case study, Stephen Inrig...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618834
• ISBN13: 9781469618838
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"