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Health care for inmates lauded
2007
Overview
Public health experts rate Rhode Island's medical care for prisoners, and particularly HIV counseling and testing services, \"among the best in the country,\" according to the article by Dr. Susan Okie, a contributing editor at the journal. The state prison offers routine HIV testing, and 90 percent of inmates get tested. Rhode Island also provides other services, such as education about avoiding HIV transmission and referrals to HIV care providers upon release, Okie writes in \"Sex, Drugs, Prisons and HIV.\" [Josiah D. Rich] said he supports efforts to diminish the spread of HIV within prisons. But the majority of new HIV infections in Rhode Island result from needle use, rather than sexual contact, and most HIV-positive prisoners here contracted the virus before being incarcerated, [Scott A. Allen] said. The physicians believe the high incidence of HIV among prisoners correlates with the high percentage of prisoners who have used injected drugs, and does not indicate the virus is being transmitted within the ACI, at least not on a large scale.
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Tribune Content Agency LLC
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