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

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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
South Carolina to Stop Separating HIV-Positive Inmates (July 12, 2013)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network
On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Report on Incarceration Illuminates Barrier to Treatment (February 7, 2013)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
NMAC Marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Releases New Report (February 7, 2013)
From National Minority AIDS Council
Mass Incarceration, Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS: Research Findings and Policy Recommendations (January 2013)
From National Minority AIDS Council and Housing Works
Health Crisis of Bronx Re-Entry Populations (December 19, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network
The ACLU AIDS Project: Decades On, Still Separate and Unequal (December 3, 2012)
Unfounded fears echo throughout policy, health care, education -- pretty much everywhere.
In The Atlantic
Why South Carolina Still Segregates HIV-Positive Prisoners (December 3, 2012)
Jails across across the country have long since stopped putting inmates with the AIDS virus in separate housing. Here's why one state refuses to change its ways.
In The Atlantic
Pennsylvania: ActionAIDS Get Funding for Prison Program (November 8, 2012)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from CDC National Prevention Information Network

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