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New Report Cites Higher Rates of HIV Infection Among Inmates
Loaded on June 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1991, page 7
The virus that causes AIDS may be more common among prison and jail inmates, especially women, than previously thought, according to a new study based on testing of nearly 11,000 inmates entering 10 prisons and jails between mid-1988 and mid-1989. The study, conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public …
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