5 Years After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk

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Ethan Howard was among 235 people in the southern Indiana community of Austin, Ind., to be infected with HIV in an outbreak that hit in 2015. It was fueled by infection drug use.

Fewer than a third of the 220 counties deemed by the federal government as vulnerable to similar outbreaks have active syringe exchange programs which can stop the spread of the infection.

(Image credit: Luke Sharrett/Kaiser Health News)

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