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Perhaps the most surprising news in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) recent report linking poverty to a generalized HIV epidemic in urban communities across the United States was that race played far less of a role than many people would imagine. The biggest factor was poverty in an urban community.

Poverty — not race — driving HIV epidemics in urban communities