Wrap it up, KC, part II

No wonder Men’s Health gave Kansas City a D- for STDs. Jackson County has a higher rate of AIDS and HIV than most of the country. Jackson County’s rate of AIDS is bigger than 81.6 percent of the counties in the nation. JaCo also has a higher rate of HIV than 92.5 percent of the country. That’s what Danny O’Farrell of the National HIV/AIDS Atlas told KSHB Channel 41.  The National HIV/AIDS Atlas charts AIDS and HIV rates by age, gender and

race/ethnicity in every county in the country.

JaCo isn’t alone. Wyandotte and Leavenwoth counties were just as bad with matching 81.6 percent AIDS rates.

Pitch reporter Peter Rugg reported about the terrifying rise in Kansas City’s HIV infection rate in the May 2008 feature story “Change is Gonna Come.”