Ending the HIV Epidemic: We Have the Tools, Do We Have the Will?

Marwan Haddad; Anna K Person; Hansel E Tookes

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.22569

Ending the HIV Epidemic: We Have the Tools, Do We Have the Will?

JAMA. 2022 Dec 13;328(22):2207-2208. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.22569.

Authors

Marwan Haddad¹, Anna K Person², Hansel E Tookes³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Key Populations, Community Health Center Inc, Middletown, Connecticut.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

PMID: 36454555
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.22569

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint identifies several barriers to ending the HIV epidemic and urges increasing expertise in HIV medicine in underserved areas like the South challenging legislation designed to keep students ignorant.

MeSH terms

Epidemics* / prevention & control
Epidemics* / psychology
HIV Infections* / epidemiology
HIV Infections* / prevention & control
HIV Infections* / psychology
Humans
Volition*