STUDY: HIV Most Prevalent In The South, Infection From Male-To-Male Sexual Contact On The Rise

A report from the Centers for Disease Control maps out HIV infection across America, and it appears the highest rates are in the Southern states, where comprehensive sex education is not taught in schools.

According to Think Progress, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana don’t require health classes to provide information about preventing HIV.

Guess that abstinence-only crap doesn’t work after all. Who’d have guessed?

Other highly impacted regions include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and Puerto Rico.

Other finding from the CDC’s HIV Surveillance Report, which examined virus transmission nationwide from 2008 to 2011: