It’s World AIDS Day, and Georgia continues to have some of the highest HIV rates and disparities nationwide.
One Atlanta advocate has lived with HIV publicly for years and has worked at the intersection of advocacy and assisting communities impacted by HIV for the past decade in Atlanta.
Daniel D. Driffin is with the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, a global partnership of scientists, laboratories, participants and community activists all working to find a preventative vaccine.
Driffin sat down with WABE’s “Morning Edition” to discuss why Georgia ranks so poorly when it comes to equitable HIV treatment, why developing a vaccine has taken decades and the burdens Georgians face living in a state that has not expanded Medicaid.
Lily Oppenheimer contributed to this report.
