County-Level HIV Prevention Gap Index for the US Deep South

877 counties across nine US Deep South states are analyzed in this ecological study. The dataset contains a constructed Prevention Gap Index (PGI) based on HIV prevalence and three standardized prevention/care proxies. Author Ruaa Al Juboori published the data on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Identifying counties with high HIV burden relative to prevention services based on the Prevention Gap Index.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of HIV prevention gaps across the Deep South using county-level data.
• Modeling associations between structural determinants (ethnicity, income) and prevention gaps.
• Comparing high PGI counties with Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Phase I priority counties for validation.

Strengths

• Includes data for 877 counties, providing a substantial regional sample.
• Indicators are z-standardized, allowing for comparative analysis across counties.
• The PGI demonstrated convergent validity, with 65% of regional EHE Phase I counties falling in the high PGI quartile.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the specific dataset file is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The analysis is ecological; individual-level data is not included.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Ruaa Al Juboori.

Collection Method

Constructed from public datasets for an ecological county-level analysis.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:48:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

US Deep South states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.