CVS is offering free HIV testing at participating Atlanta metro-area MinuteClinic at CVS HealthHUB locations now through July 13, in collaboration with Gilead Sciences.
HIV disproportionately impacts historically underserved communities, including Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities. CDC data show gay and bisexual men made up 69 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2019, Black people made up 42 percent, Latinx people made up 29 percent, and trans people made up two percent.
Georgia, and Atlanta in particular, have increasingly become a hot spot for HIV diagnoses. Atlanta’s HIV diagnosis rate of 44 is over three times the U.S.
average (per 100,000 people). In 2020, Georgia had the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses of any state, according to CDC data.
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