The Incarcerated & HIV/AIDS

Rusti began her HIV/AIDs advocacy in the early 1990s, as a peer educator in the prison where she herself was incarcerated. Now this mother, grandmother, wife and long-term survivor fights for incarcerated women's health from outside the walls.

Rusti's Blog: Advocacy Outside the Walls

General Articles

Stigma in the Situation (September 1, 2016)
From AIDS Foundation of Chicago
HIV Advocates Turn to Parole Reform, Seeking Release of Aging Prisoners (July 12, 2016)
From TheBody.com
'Death Came Every Week': How Prisoners Overcame Early HIV/AIDS Stigma Through Community Education (July 12, 2016)
From TheBody.com
New Report on Transgender People in the Criminal Justice System (May 25, 2016)
New report is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the experiences of queer people in this country's criminal justice system.
From The Center for HIV Law and Policy
'We Don't Have to Wait for Other People to Treat Us Better': Taking the Sting Out of Stigma in Prison (April 25, 2016)
In Turn It Up!, from The SERO Project
I Am Reaching Out and Asking for Help (December 23, 2015)
From TheBody.com
Banning the Box Would Help People Released From Prison Rebuild Their Lives (August 3, 2015)
From The Conversation
Condoms in U.S. Prisons: A Top HIV Clinical Development of 2014 (December 15, 2014)
From TheBodyPRO.com
Alabama to Stop Segregating HIV-Positive Inmates (September 6, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network
$30,000/Year to Treat One California Prisoner With HIV/AIDS (July 22, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network

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