Prisoners & HIV/AIDS: Personal Accounts/Profiles

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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
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
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
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 (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
"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
Prison Letter From Cliff Nowell (June 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Body Positive Book Reading Club: Voices From Within: An Anthology of Prisoners' Expressions on HIV and AIDS (May 2001)
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
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
Lost Youth (March/April 2001)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Readers Forum: Messages From the Inside (March 2001)
Inmates write about their experinces living with HIV.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Prisoners' Voices (July 2000)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Living With HIV: Cellblock Care? (October 1999)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Treatment and Mistreatment Behind Bars (September 1999)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Prevention Behind Bars (July 1999)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Why Me? (April 1999)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Alternative to Jail: Hope for Incarcerated PWAs (October 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
A Letter From the York Correctional Institute (Autumn 1995)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
Women Prisoners With HIV Speak Out (Summer 1994)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive

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