AIDSVu

AIDSVu is an interactive online mapping tool that visualizes the impact of the HIV epidemic on communities across the United States to increase disease awareness and promote data-driven public health decision-making. AIDSVu is presented by Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in partnership with Gilead Sciences, Inc. and the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University (CFAR). The site utilizes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local health departments, and other high-quality sources to allow users to explore the HIV epidemic at the state-, county-, and ZIP Code-levels. The map visualizes HIV-related data by race/ethnicity, sex, age, and transmission category, and shows how HIV is related to various social determinants of health, such as high school education, poverty, and housing.

AIDSVu allows users to locate services for HIV prevention, testing, and care, and also includes NIH-funded HIV prevention, vaccine, and treatment trial locations. In addition, for the nine states in the Deep South, users can locate services for stigma reduction, overdose prevention/reversal, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care. The site also has data pages with profiles for approximately 50 U.S. cities, 48 counties with the highest burden of new HIV diagnoses that are prioritized for Phase 1 of Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America initiative, 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, 4 regions, and the nation, offering easy-to-understand, printable snapshots that summarize the impact of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Now in its 15th year, AIDSVu continues to expand the data, maps, and tools available on its main website, as well as on Powered by AIDSVu projects that visualize public health data. In 2015, the inaugural Powered By AIDSVu project, HIVContinuum.org, was released as a proof of concept to map outcomes across five stages of the HIV care continuum. AIDSVu has now expanded on this model to map more than 40 states and Washington, DC at the state-level, as well as over 35 cities at ZIP Code-level across the U.S. In 2017, the second Powered By AIDSVu project, HepVu.org, was established to visualize the first standardized state-level estimates of Hepatitis C prevalence across the U.S.