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October 2003, Vol 93, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1617
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

MANDATORY HIV TESTING IN PRISONS

Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP and Judy Greenspan

The authors are with California Prison Focus, San Francisco.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP, California Prison Focus, 2940 16th St, No. 307, San Francisco, CA 94103 (e-mail: coreman@igc.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We read with interest and concern Braithwaite and Arriola’s "Male Prisoners and HIV Prevention: A Call for Action Ignored" in the May 2003 issue of the Journal.1 While we appreciate their insights into the custodial barriers and underfunding for medical care that characterize HIV prevention for male prisoners, we take issue with their first recommendation.

We are opposed to the call for mandatory HIV testing in prisons, despite the fact that 16 states are already doing it. We find it shocking that this policy suggestion was put forth in the face of the information presented briefly in the paper. The . . . [Full Text]




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