COVID-19 pandemic still has a major impact in many countries since medical experts are still on the process of finding or developing an efficient cure or vaccine that could end it completely. However, as the world focuses on neutralizing the viral disease, another global plague might be triggered, HIV.
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"HIV is still a crisis. And it's a major crisis here in the South. But that's pushed to the side because we're responding to the COVID crisis," said the executive director of the Southern AIDS Coalition, Derick Wilson, via The Daily Beast.
Wilson also explained that many of the same communities, especially Black ones, which are hit hardest by AIDS and HIV, are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, making it more dangerous.
"If you were to look at a heat map of persons who are contracting COVID and dying from it and also HIV rates, it would look pretty much the same," he added.
Johns Hopkins University and Medicine reported that the new daily infection is nearly triple in June for almost 300,000 total cases, increasing the coronavirus infection rate throughout the Southeast and few places more than Mississippi.
"A second wave is going to hurt us, and the wave is just getting bigger. Right now, we've got a tsunami," said clinic CEO Aurelia Jones-Taylor.
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