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| Many challenges face ex-inmates living with HIV |
| By atlantadailyworld.com- David Crary |
| Published: 06/30/2014 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Several times each month, a white bus picks up newly released ex-inmates at New York’s Rikers Island jail complex and drives them to Harlem, where helping hands await at a transition program run by a nonprofit called the Fortune Society. As they readjust to freedom, these new arrivals face the myriad challenges confronting anyone leaving jail or prison — and a daunting additional one. They have HIV. While infection and incarceration represent a double challenge, this can be a health-care opportunity, says JoAnne Page, the Fortune Society’s president. “You don’t want to see people locked up — but if you’re trying to reach people who are HIV-positive, that’s the place to be.” Read More. |
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