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| No HIV Meds for Some Nevada Inmates |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/03/2006 |
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Only about 50 of the 117 HIV-positive inmates in Nevada prisons are getting medication to treat the virus, but officials say it's not because the convicts are being denied the drugs. Karen Walsh, health information officer with the Corrections Department, says inmates often refuse to take the medications because of the harsh side effects or stop taking them after their health improves. But questions are being raised by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada and the Diversity Leadership Institute, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit group that works with people who are HIV-positive. Consuelo McCuin of Diversity Leadership says the group often gets reports from current and former inmates who say they couldn't get their medications. Gary Peck of the Nevada ACLU says other failures in the prison's health care system show that inmates aren't getting medications properly. |
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