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5 Years After Indiana’s Historic HIV Outbreak, Many Rural Places Remain At Risk
By: Laura Ungar | NPR
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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.