Patchwork Pandemic: State Politics and the Fractured US Response to HIV/AIDS

Patchwork Pandemic is the first ever history of how individual American states responded to the HIV/AIDS crisis—and an eye-opening look at how a fragmented federalist system creates disparities in public health policy.

Public health in the United States has long been rife with inequity due to a federalist system that relies on state and local governments to bear the bulk of the responsibility for addressing crises, as seen in the 1918 outbreak of influenza and, most recently, in the COVID-19...