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Nettleton, Jodi (MA). HIV testing serices offered to incarcerated women in a Florida county jail (Romero-Daza). 2004.
Jails serve as important location for the provision of HIV prevention services for incarcerated women, such as HIV testing, being that the reasons in which these women are being incarcerated, at times, poses the highest risk for HIV infection. In the early 1980's, when AIDS was first identified, medical professionals, as well as society at large, thought the disease affected mainly homosexual ales. Today we realize that HIV is most prevalent among Injection Drug Users (IDU's), the economically disadvantaged, people of color, and women. Among these groups, women are fast becoming the most drastically affected segment of the population. At heightened risk are those women who are addicted to drugs and/or who are involved in commercial sex work. Many of these women find themselves in and out of the correctional system. Thus, such settings provide an ideal location for the provision of HIV prevention services, specifically HIV testing. This paper explores findings of qualitative and quantitative research on HIV testing services, offered to incarcerated women in a Florida county jail.
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