Research Paper on:
Correctional Institutions, HIV, and AIDS

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to details, here on the outside. People on the inside, however, people in prisons, cannot always control their environment or what happens to them. As a result it seems as  though AIDS and HIV is a serious problem in our correctional facilities within this country. Bearing that in mind, the following paper examines the condition of AIDS and HIV in  correctional facilities and then devotes a majority of the paper to inmate healthcare. AIDS and HIV in Correctional Facilities In discussing the condition of AIDS and HIV in  correctional facilities we first turn to an article printed in 1991. In this article we are provided with some intriguing statistics achieved through a research study. In this study we  find conditions associated with the disease that have likely not changed in the past 10 years. For example, this study examined men and women in prison and found that "Overall,  nonwhites had disproportionately higher HIV-1 rates than whites. Excess risk persisted after statistically controlling for correctional system, age, and gender" (Vlahov et al. 1129). They found this finding to be  entirely consistent with other studies across the nation. "However, the higher HIV-1 rate in whites compared with nonwhites among women in two correctional systems from Mid-Atlantic states (ie, systems 6  and 7) is noteworthy and requires further study" (Vlahov et al. 1129). In addition this study found that "The incidence of HIV-1 infection was greater in those who were  entering jails (5.1 percent) than those entering prison (3.5 percent). These results indicate that facilities with large numbers of incoming male and female inmates who are over the age of  25, female and under the age of 25, or belong to racial minority groups, should be given high priority for the use of limited resources for treating HIV-1 infection" (Vlahov