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

LETTER

BRAITHWAITE AND ARRIOLA RESPOND

Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD and Kimberly R. J. Arriola, PhD, MPH

The authors are with the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 (e-mail: rbraith@sph.emory.edu).

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

Mandatory HIV testing is a double-edged sword—you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. As African American scientists living in the United States, we have observed that racial, gender, class, and age discrimination continues to be an integral part of the American fabric.

The current research literature documents the fact that racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately overrepresented in the US correctional system (prisons, jails, detention centers, halfway houses, parole, and probation). We also know that blinded studies reveal a higher HIV prevalence than voluntary testing reveals.1–3 Compounding these observations is the fact that sexual encounters occur . . . [Full Text]






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