HIV Outbreak Persists as Officials Push Back Against Containment Efforts

HIV outbreak persists as officials push back against containment efforts

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Brooke Parker has spent the past two years combing riverside homeless encampments, abandoned houses, and less traveled roads to help contain a lingering HIV outbreak that has disproportionately affected those who live on society’s margins.

HIV Outbreak Persists as Officials Push Back Against Containment Efforts

Amid this crisis, state and local government officials have enacted laws and ordinances that make clean syringes harder to get.