Since her HIV diagnosis 24 years ago, Laurie Ann Lewis can count on one hand the number of times she’s missed her quarterly appointment for blood work. Both were this spring. For patients with the deadly virus that causes AIDS, regular blood draws are the only way to make sure their medication is keeping
Since her HIV diagnosis 24 years ago, Laurie Ann Lewis can count on one hand the number of times she’s missed her quarterly appointment for blood work. Both were this spring.
Two hours up Highway 49, nurses at the Aaron E. Henry Community Health Centers, a network of federally-funded clinics in northwest Mississippi, normally test around 250 patients for HIV each month. Like many pockets of the South, HIV has embedded itself in this rural corner of the state, where close to 1 percent of the adult population lives with HIV, a rate three times the national average.
What’s especially dangerous about this, Wilson said, is that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting many of the same communities—especially Black ones—hit hardest by HIV and AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement to The Daily Beast saying the organization was concerned “that the decrease in the availability of testing and limited access to treatment and prevention services [for HIV] may result in more infections and poor health outcomes in the long run.
“It was a mandate,” Jones-Taylor said. “Because the funding came with certain benchmarks we had to hit.” “Dr. Dobbs has had to do clerical duties to keep the website up,” Lampton said, referring to the state health officer Thomas Dobbs. “He’s had to enter the data himself.” Liz Sharlot, head of communications for Mississippi’s Department of Health, denied that the state’s top doctor was doing data entry, but admitted that Dobbs is “probably sleeping three hours a night. We’ve had our hands full.”
“It’s an interesting parallel, that both COVID and HIV are spread by the same human desires,” Wilson said. “They’re both spread by a human desire for connection, whether it’s sexual connection or it’s social, and that’s the common denominator for both of them. So we do have to consider that commonality in the way we approach the illness.”
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