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Benefits And Barriers To Hiv Testing In A Population Of Federal Detention Inmates, Nicole A. Knight
Benefits And Barriers To Hiv Testing In A Population Of Federal Detention Inmates, Nicole A. Knight
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Voluntary HIV testing in combination with early medical intervention has been shown to be effective in reducing the rate of new infections and improving the health and life expectancy of those living with HIV. There are however several high-risk populations in the US that remain largely unreached by HIV testing efforts, some of which could be reached while they spend time in prison or jail. Per current Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy, HIV testing is routinely offered only to “high risk” pretrial and sentenced inmates. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 721 pretrial and sentenced inmates who entered a large …