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Intravenous Drug Use and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in Prison

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 3, no. 2 (1988): 42-46
David Vlahov and B. Frank Polk

Between 1982, when the first cases of AIDS in prison inmates were reported, and October 1986, when the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) completed a survey of 58 federal, state, and local correctional systems, 1,232 cases of AIDS have been identified in U.S. prisons. The occurrence of AIDS in the correctional setting is not unexpected, because two major risk groups for AIDS, intravenous drug users (IVDUs) and homosexual/bisexual men, can be found in prison. The authors present current survey data.
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