Kaposi sarcoma (KS) continues to play a significant part in morbidity and mortality among Black patients with HIV living in the South.
A recent study showed Black patients with HIV-associated KS had double the mortality of white or Hispanic patients with HIV-associated KS (AIDS 2021 Dec 22. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000003155).
“There seems to be this notion that Kaposi sarcoma is no longer a disease of interest or concern in the United States because clinicians don’t see