The state's role
Published: Thu, Apr. 24, 2008 12:30AM
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closeRegarding the April 13 article "N.C. urged to test inmates for HIV": Prisons are required by law to provide treatment for diseases diagnosed during confinement. Therefore, prisons are reluctant to test inmates for HIV. This fact was barely touched upon in your article, but it deserves discussion since it exposes why a meaningful, solution-oriented institutional response to HIV among inmates is decidedly missing.
You referred to HIV as a weapon. I ask readers to consider who is actually wielding it.
Ann Shy
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(The writer is a Community Advisory Board member at the UNC School of Medicine AIDS Clinical Trials Unit.)
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