Number Of People In Jail With Hiv

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HIV in Prisons and Jails

HIV and Correctional Settings Health Care in Prisons and Jails Prisoners With HIV Infection HIV Care for Prisoners Improving Your HIV Treatment Risk Factors While Incarcerated What Happens When HIV-Positive Prisoners Are Released? HIV and Correctional Settings People with HIV sometimes have to spend time in a jail or prison. Jails are usually operated by counties. Prisons are state or federal institutions. The rate of...

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jail time or mental hospital for nondisclosure

Hello If an hiv person doesnt disclose their hiv before having sex would that hiv person go to jail with hard criminals like murders and rapest? What if the hiv person suffered from schizophenia would they be sent to a mental hospital to serve their...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Much depends on local laws. In many places such non-disclosure is a crime. DW... Read more »

Hiv test in jail

Hi my brother is in jail and he requested a hiv test because he has never had one he told me had unprotected sex with a few girls a while ago definately over three months ago. My brother told me they tested him with an oral swab and that they will...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,What you're describing is one type of rapid test. It's <i>very</i> reliable. But you're right, there's another oral test that will give results after about 20 minutes.Hope this helps!Erik... Read more »

Possibly exposed to HIV in Jail?!

I recently had a cartilage piercing in my ear. A few hours after I had it pierced, I was arrested (petty theft) and sent to jail where I was forced to remove all my jewelry including the earring from my freshly pierced ear. It bled a lot and an...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

I don't see how you could have been infected with HIV this way. First of all, the virus probably would not have survived long enough to have been passed from one person to the glove, then the glove to the earring, and then an hour later to you... Read more »

numbers, numbers

hi,I'm newly infected/diagnosed and am pretty scared right now. I've been trying to educate myself as much as possible. And sites like this are very helpful. But I'm really afraid of three things. 1)med's side effects. 2)...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

thanks for your question and sorry to hear of your situation.In general, most persons with HIV infection in the US do fine for many years, even without the initiation of antiretroviral therapy.Once therapy is started, I believe that key issues are... Read more »

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How many people have HIV / AIDS?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I am curious to the number of people alive in the US with HIV / AIDS. On the CDC website it states that as of Deceober a total of about 770,000 cases had been reported. Then later on it states that about 400,000 people have died. Are those... Read more »

Hiv+ people quarantined!!

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A must read if you are hiv anti-body positive:

The following is a letter by the Washington D.C.-based Health Privacy Project
of Georgetown University strongly condemning aspects of the Model State
Emergency Health Powers Act -- pending legislation... Read more »

Hiv usually transmitted before people know

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - HIV infection is likely to be transmitted before people are even aware that they are carriers, UK researchers report in the January 3rd issue of AIDS.

"The study demonstrates that a significant proportion of new HIV-1... Read more »

Life Insurance for people who areHIV+

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I just received information about Life Insurance that might be helpful to someone who is HIV+. I have located a High Risk Insurance Company which is called IMPAIRED RISK SPECIALIST INC. The company has a plan called E.Z. 123 HIV.
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