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/ADVANCE/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire -- The rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among state and federal prisoners dropped from 2.3 percent in 1996 to 2.1 percent in 1997, according to a new bulletin released today by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). There were 23,548 HIV-infected inmates at the end of 1997, down from 23,881 in 1996. In 1997, 22,518 state prisoners and 1,030 federal prisoners were known to be HIV positive.
The number of deaths due to AIDS dropped from 907 in 1996 to 538 in 1997. The rate of death due to AIDS dropped sharply from 100 deaths per 100,000 state inmates in 1995 (the highest rate recorded) to 48 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 1997. Between 1991 (the first year of data collection) and 1996 about one in three state prisoner deaths were attributable to AIDS. During 1997 it was about one in five.
Of inmates known to be HIV positive, 6,184 had confirmed AIDS, while 16,503 either showed symptoms of HIV infection or were asymptomatic. Between 1991 and 1997 the number of inmates with confirmed AIDS increased by more than 4,500 -- an increase of over 24 percent per year. At year end 1997 the rate of confirmed AIDS in prison (55 per 10,000 inmates) was at least 5 times the rate in the U.S. general population (10 per 10,000 U.S. residents age 13 or older).
These HIV-positive inmates were concentrated in a small number of states. New York state prisons, with 7,500 HIV-positive inmates, and Florida state prisons, with 2,325, held more than 40 percent of all HIV-infected inmates.
Nearly half of the state prisoners known to be HIV positive were held in the Northeast, where 6.4 percent of the inmates were HIV positive, followed by 2 percent in the South, 0.9 percent in the Midwest and 0.8 percent in the West. New York had the highest percentage (10.8 percent), followed by Connecticut (5.1 percent), Massachusetts (3.7 percent), Florida (3.6 percent) and Maryland (3.5 percent).
In most states, female inmates had higher HIV infection rates than male inmates. Overall, 2.2 percent of male inmates and 3.5 percent of female inmates were HIV positive. In two states at least 10 percent of the female inmates were infected -- New York (20.7 percent) and Connecticut (13.1).
The BJS report indicated a strong link between prior drug use and HIV infection. Based on personal interviews with state prisoners, 2.7 percent of those who had used drugs in the month before their current offense said they were HIV positive, as did 4.6 percent of those who had used a needle to inject drugs and 7.7 percent of those who had shared a needle.
The rate of HIV infection was higher among black (2.8 percent) and Hispanic (2.5 percent) state prison inmates than white inmates (1.4 percent). State inmates age 35 to 44 had the highest rates of infection (3.1 percent), while those age 24 or younger had the lowest (0.5 percent).
The bulletin, "HIV in Prisons 1997" (NCJ-178284), was written by BJS statistician Laura M. Maruschak. Single copies may be obtained from the BJS fax-on-demand system by dialing 301-519-5550, listening to the complete menu and selecting document number 174. Or call the BJS clearinghouse number: 800-732-3277. Fax orders for mail delivery to 410-792-4358. The BJS Internet site is: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Additional criminal justice materials can be obtained from the Office of Justice Programs homepage at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov
* OJP and its component agencies' press releases are available for use without restriction
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SOURCE Office of Justice Programs
Latest stuff on HIV in the prison population.
If the HIV infection rate is this high, wonder what the Hep C rate is?
FYI
"Interesting article in that female inmates now have a higher prevalence of HIV."
Probably the guards are now the carriers.
Probably the guards are now the carriers.
Maybe?
bttt
Do we have rates of male-to-female and female-to-male transmission via sexual intercourse? I haven't seen the figures for years, but seem to recall both figures being low and one markedly lower than the other.
Some prisons in Texas reported Hep C infection rate as high as 60%.
Nationally, the rate is about 1.8%.
The infection rate is down from 2.3 to 2.1, approximately 10% reduction. Death rate down far more dramatically. How do we account for these welcome trends?
Female to male transmission is about half as likely to occur as male to female. Risk of male to female is 1 out of 1000. All of this assumes no ulcers are present or exchange of blood occurs.
The infection rate is down from 2.3 to 2.1, approximately 10% reduction. Death rate down far more dramatically. How do we account for these welcome trends?
Death rate is pretty straightforward - Protease inhibitor drugs. Infection rate drop may be due to safer sexual practices but parallels national rate overall.
Some prisons in Texas reported Hep C infection rate as high as 60%.
I hadn't seen numbers that high. I was thinking 25-30%. In the general population, the US rate is 1.8%, worldwide is 4%.
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Hey CholeraJoe!
Thanks, Joe.
I seem to have picked up a bug of my own (fever, chills, achy joints) and probably won't be my cheery self for awhile. Regards t'y'awl.
I suggest liberal bed rest, plenty of fluids and the History Channel. (it makes me sleepy)
Mornin' Five. Have you seen the headlines?
;-)
Two words----Ethnic Cleansing
Yeow!
You are not making sense. Go have some coffee.
The infection rate has always been higher in females, when it is spread through heterosexual contact. No doubt the anatomy has something to do with this (and no, I won't go there right now....).
You forgot to re-set the font size. Doing < / font > just won't work... for whatever reason.
Let's try turning off the bold again, too.
When doing the marquee command, put the turn-off-bold tag after the turn-off-marquee command.
Thank you so much. It was driving me nuts.
I feel better, thanks. It may just have been exhaustion.
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