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California HIV+ Prisoners on Medical Strike
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 7
California HIV+ Prisoners On Medical Strike The rate of HIV (the virus believed to cause AIDS infection) in prisons is higher than in all other institutions in the U.S. National studies have shown that prisoners with AIDS live half as long as people with AIDS on the outside. Even in …
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