Prisoners & HIV: Personal Accounts/Profiles
 HIV Behind the Walls: A Blog Entry by Rev. Andrena Ingram (March 15, 2013)
From TheBody.com
- Arick Buckles: The Journey Continues (May/June 2012)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- A Prison of Our Own Making (May/June 2012)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Personal Perspective: Freed From Prison, But Not Free (Summer 2011)
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In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
- Fighting for Prison Health Care Above the Norm: A Blog Entry by Rusti Miller-Hill (August 10, 2010)
"[While incarcerated in the early '90s, I] became a peer educator in the AIDS Resource Room, and found what would become my life's work upon my release. Nearly 20 years later, I am still disclosing my status and advocating to advance the state of health for women living with HIV/AIDS in my own community."
From TheBody.com
- I Smile Now (November/December 2009)
A story of redemption.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- The Exception to the Rule: HIV-Positive Women in Prison (Fall 2005)
Laura Whitehorn knows firsthand how cruel HIV care can be for female prison inmates in the U.S.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- The HIV Merry-Go-Round (Fall 2005)
Stigma and uncaring health workers have made life much more difficult for Ismael Gonzalez, a 44-year-old inmate at New York's Marcy Correctional Facility.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- If At First You Don't Succeed (Fall 2005)
New York inmate Michael Brown must go to great lengths to get anything close to the level of HIV care and support he needs.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Health Care for All? (Fall 2005)
No confidentiality, no expertise, no sympathy; for this HIV-positive Jamaican inmate, the U.S. prison system showed just how unequal a person's rights can be.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Brutal Conditions, Discrimination Common for HIV-Positive Inmates (Summer 2004)
HIV-positive Colorado inmate Danny Meyers remembers the difficulties of prison life for HIV-positive people in the 1980s and 1990s.
In Positives for Positives, from Wyoming: Positives for Positives
- My Journey From Addiction and Incarceration to Recovery and Hope (2003)
Marina Alvarez, a Latina AIDS educator and community organizer, was the opening speaker at the World AIDS Conference in Amsterdam.
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From PositiveWords
- No Protection: A Prisoner's True Story (December 2002)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Making It in Business (September/October 2002)
How Lynn Bridges transformed herself from a prostitute and an ex-con into a legitimate entrepreneur.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- Positive Empowerment (May/June 2002)
Beverly explains how she finds the courage to go on; she's in prison dealing with HIV and hepatitis C.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Positive Empowerment (January/February 2002)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- From a Positive Prisoner (July/August 2001)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Prison Letter From Cliff Nowell (June 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- "If I Kill Myself at This Point, I'd Be Killing the Wrong Person": A Memoir (June 2001)
Frank Salinas' story of surviving a life in the orphanage, in prison, with addiction, and with HIV/AIDS, and emerging stronger in the end.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Under Lock and Key: Youth Under the Influence of HIV (May 2001)
Sheryl, 15, is one of the growing number of youth with HIV in prison.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Readers' Forum: Prisoners Write About the Difficulty of Living With HIV in Prison (May 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
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