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HIV Infections, AIDS Deaths Down in U.S. Prisons
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 12
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the fearsome, incurable disease caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), is far more prevalent in prison populations nationwide than it is in the general, non-incarcerated population throughout the United States. At the end of the year 2000, 52 out of every 10,000 prisoners had confirmed ...
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