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The Associated Press - Monday October 4, 1999
Each state will receive between $900,000 and $1.1 million.
A study released by the CDC in August found that there are 8,900 inmates nationwide with AIDS and between 35,000 and 47,000 with the virus that causes it - a rate five times higher than the national average.
"Prisons and jails provide a critical opportunity to provide lifesaving HIV prevention services to a population that might otherwise be missed," said Dr. Helene D. Gayle, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention.
The CDC said inmates typically aren't infected while incarcerated, but that only 10 percent of state and federal prison systems and only 5 percent of city and county jails have HIV prevention programs.
The states receiving grants are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
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