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<span style="font-style: italic">Ever wonder why African American women represents the fastest growing number of new HIV/AIDS infections..........It is so by design.</span>
The prison system plays a huge role as many Black men become accustomed to unprotected sexual encounters with members of the same sex while behind bars. Even as prisons know these sexual encounters take place, many refuse to sell or allow condoms in prisons. Thereby allowing HIV/AIDS to spread among members of the prison population. New York lawmakers are still trying to get legislation passed that would educate prisoners about the spread of HIV/AIDS and allow condoms to be distributed behind bars.
When prisoners leave prisons, many have sexually transmitted diseases that endanger the health of new sex partners, mostly Black women. Unprotected sex with male and female partners increases the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and contributes to the rise of Black women contracting HIV/AIDS from infected partners.
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We must face reality that since 1980, the total number of black men in jail has jumped from 143,000 to 791,000. Prisons have recently been making the claim that their inmates take AIDS back out into their communities. They fight this theory by saying that when inmates come in, they test them, but what they don’t acknowledge is that it’s too expensive to test again on their release.
<span style="font-size: 17pt"><span style="color: #FF0000">What a government health official won’t tell you is that women are not getting this disease from men who had heterosexual sex, but more than likely from another man, <span style="text-decoration: underline">because AIDS does not spread well enough that way for it to operate as the majority of transmission</span></span>. </span>More than likely AIDS was originally contracted through Hepatitis B and C- needles and anal sex…in prison.
Our justice system has compounded our community beyond our young men being able to vote due to holding a gram of crack cocaine. We are now facing an epidemic that is affecting innocent black women, who are not protecting themselves
Meanwhile, the neighborhoods that Ohio prison inmates return to have become the most infected in the state.
Black Ohioans are now six times as likely to have the AIDS virus as white Ohioans.
The virus is 11 times as common among black women in Ohio as among white women.
As the AIDS virus moved deeper into the ranks of black women in the 1990s, about 42,500 young black men filed out of Ohio's prison system at least once, with another 13,500 still inside.
How virulent are prisons?
Ask the Red Cross. Years ago, it stopped accepting blood donations from anyone who has been held in a correctional facility -- a prison, jail, detention center, or halfway house -- for more than 72 consecutive hours in the previous year. The reason: The agency considers them ``high risk environments for HIV and hepatitis,'' a spokeswoman said.
Read the restriction carefully.
Significantly, the Red Cross allows former inmates to give blood again a year after their release, when a blood test would reveal any virus picked up in prison.
The restriction contradicts the argument that the AIDS virus is only carried into -- and not transmitted inside -- prisons.
``There's a general feeling, especially among health officials, that the high amount of MSM/heterosexual transmission in that community is due to the African-Americans who are in prisons,'' said Kenneth Cook, an AIDS prevention specialist with the Columbus Health Department.
Tom Kuhns, the Toledo Health Department's expert, agrees. ``The case that it's spreading in prisons is that in African-American females -- their highest exposure to the virus is heterosexual sex.''
The study didn't go further than that. Left unexamined was the possibility of a link between the ``down low'' phenomenon and the extraordinary percentage of young black men who have been locked up without women.
The prison system plays a huge role as many Black men become accustomed to unprotected sexual encounters with members of the same sex while behind bars. Even as prisons know these sexual encounters take place, many refuse to sell or allow condoms in prisons. Thereby allowing HIV/AIDS to spread among members of the prison population. New York lawmakers are still trying to get legislation passed that would educate prisoners about the spread of HIV/AIDS and allow condoms to be distributed behind bars.
When prisoners leave prisons, many have sexually transmitted diseases that endanger the health of new sex partners, mostly Black women. Unprotected sex with male and female partners increases the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and contributes to the rise of Black women contracting HIV/AIDS from infected partners.
<span style="font-style: italic">Check this Video out</span>
We must face reality that since 1980, the total number of black men in jail has jumped from 143,000 to 791,000. Prisons have recently been making the claim that their inmates take AIDS back out into their communities. They fight this theory by saying that when inmates come in, they test them, but what they don’t acknowledge is that it’s too expensive to test again on their release.
<span style="font-size: 17pt"><span style="color: #FF0000">What a government health official won’t tell you is that women are not getting this disease from men who had heterosexual sex, but more than likely from another man, <span style="text-decoration: underline">because AIDS does not spread well enough that way for it to operate as the majority of transmission</span></span>. </span>More than likely AIDS was originally contracted through Hepatitis B and C- needles and anal sex…in prison.
Our justice system has compounded our community beyond our young men being able to vote due to holding a gram of crack cocaine. We are now facing an epidemic that is affecting innocent black women, who are not protecting themselves
Meanwhile, the neighborhoods that Ohio prison inmates return to have become the most infected in the state.
Black Ohioans are now six times as likely to have the AIDS virus as white Ohioans.
The virus is 11 times as common among black women in Ohio as among white women.
As the AIDS virus moved deeper into the ranks of black women in the 1990s, about 42,500 young black men filed out of Ohio's prison system at least once, with another 13,500 still inside.
How virulent are prisons?
Ask the Red Cross. Years ago, it stopped accepting blood donations from anyone who has been held in a correctional facility -- a prison, jail, detention center, or halfway house -- for more than 72 consecutive hours in the previous year. The reason: The agency considers them ``high risk environments for HIV and hepatitis,'' a spokeswoman said.
Read the restriction carefully.
Significantly, the Red Cross allows former inmates to give blood again a year after their release, when a blood test would reveal any virus picked up in prison.
The restriction contradicts the argument that the AIDS virus is only carried into -- and not transmitted inside -- prisons.
``There's a general feeling, especially among health officials, that the high amount of MSM/heterosexual transmission in that community is due to the African-Americans who are in prisons,'' said Kenneth Cook, an AIDS prevention specialist with the Columbus Health Department.
Tom Kuhns, the Toledo Health Department's expert, agrees. ``The case that it's spreading in prisons is that in African-American females -- their highest exposure to the virus is heterosexual sex.''
The study didn't go further than that. Left unexamined was the possibility of a link between the ``down low'' phenomenon and the extraordinary percentage of young black men who have been locked up without women.
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