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

A 2026 analysis of 877 counties across nine US Deep South states. The dataset contains a constructed Prevention Gap Index (PGI) derived from standardized HIV prevalence and three prevention/care proxies. It was created by Ruaa Al Juboori and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identifying counties with high HIV burden relative to prevention services based on the Prevention Gap Index.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of HIV prevention and care proxies across the Deep South.
• Assessing correlations between the PGI and structural determinants like ethnicity, income, and education.
• Comparing high PGI counties with Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Phase I priority counties for validation.

Strengths

• Covers 877 counties across nine states, providing a regional scope.
• Index construction is detailed in the description, involving three standardized prevention/care proxies.
• Validated against EHE priority counties and new diagnosis rates with reported statistical metrics.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for specific analyses (e.g., new diagnosis rates) is partial (n=512).
• Data is contained in a DOCX file (14.9 KB), which may require extraction and formatting for analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Ruaa Al Juboori.

Collection Method

Ecological county-level analysis constructed from public datasets.

Time Range

Analysis year is 2026; underlying data time range is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:48:19.

Geography

Counties in the US Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas).