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| HIV Study To Target Prisons |
| By dailytarheel.com |
| Published: 11/02/2010 |
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A team of UNC researchers is looking to dispel the myth that HIV often begins in prison — and make sure the virus doesn’t spread behind bars. David Wohl, a professor at UNC School of Medicine, is co-leading a five-year study of HIV in the state’s prison system. He and his associates received nearly $50 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study ways of preventing and treating HIV in N.C. prisons. Wohl said a common misconception is that HIV spreads through sexual intercourse between men in prison. The truth, he said, is that many inmates with HIV already have the virus before they go to jail. Only one in 300 people in the general U.S. population has HIV, Wohl said, but one in 50 people who go to prison has it. Read More. |
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