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United Press International - December 12, 2005
Led by Kim Blankenship, associate research scientist, the investigators reviewed existing studies and secondary data on trends of incarceration rates and HIV infection levels.
While African Americans make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 40 percent of those incarcerated, 40 percent of all AIDS cases reported through 2003 and 50 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2003.
The article points to state and federal drug policies for increasing incarceration rates in the United States, especially among African Americans.
"There are clearly individual health risks for people while they are incarcerated, including unprotected sexual contact, drug use and tattooing," said Blankenship. "Beyond that, I am particularly interested in how the disruption of social and drug use networks when a person enters and leaves prison affects the individual, their partners, family members and the larger community."
The research appears in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
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