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HIV Positive Assessment Findings Summarized

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illegal drug use by injection and homemade tattoos. The men, who range between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-one years old, reflect a small and somewhat equitable representation of  the HIV positive aggregate within this prison community. II. RELEVANT RESEARCH The social, political and economic activities experienced in everyday life represent  the very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how one  attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way in which one interacts with another, as well as what governs overall behavior. That a predominance of HIV positive men are found  within the confines of a federal prison speaks to the inherent connection between ones chosen lifestyle and the manner by which certain choices encourage the disease more than other ones.  Human nature is defined by myriad elements, not the least of which is the social need to categorize people into distinct groupings based  upon certain criteria. These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that a  community would just as soon forget, such as prison inmates. When social ills as poverty, cultural determinism and substance abuse converge upon an individual, it is not at all  surprising to understand how the cyclical nature of such an existence instigates an HIV positive diagnosis. The men in this survey have been marginalized with various forms of poverty, addiction,  illness and opportunity limitations, having lived a downward spiraling pattern of existence until the time they were incarcerated, incapable of making appropriate life choices and perpetually caught within a web