Summary Why don’t we do routine HIV testing? We cannot afford to treat someone who was identified as HIV-positive. It sounds cold, I know, but that is the reality. –S. Wright, nursing director, Caddo Parish Correctional Center, Shreveport, Louisiana,April 8, 2015 Of all the life events that knock people out of HIV care, going to jail is one of the biggest disruptors. —Dr. Anne Spaulding, associate professor at Emory University and a national expert on HIV in corrections In 2011, the United States, in concert with countries around the world, announced the “beginning of the end of AIDS.” Defeating AIDS would be a stunning achievement in public health. But doing so requires effectively...
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