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MISSISSIPPI - 2012: Dr. Aaron Shirley, a black doctor from Jackson, poses for a portrait in downtown Jackson, close to where he grew up, in Mississippi, June 2, 21012. Shirley had been struggling with Mississippi's health problems all his life: he was the first black student to do his residency at the University Medical Center in Jackson, he was a key player during the 1962 Freedom Summer, and teamed up with Dr. Mohammad Shabazi and and non-profit consultant from Oxford, Mississippi, James Miller, to try to implement a health care plan similar to that in Iran in Mississippi. Mississippi has some of the highest rates of diabetes, obesity, infant mortality, AIDs, among other ailments, in the country, and though millions of federal funds have been thrown at the problems for years, conditions have only gotten worse. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Getty Images Reportage)