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What strategies work to keep HIV+ ex-prisoners on their meds?

From the abstract to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, we get a bit more information about the shockingly high rates of HIV positive inmates who stop receiving anti-retroviral drugs when they leave prison. Researchers fear such inmates could become the source of drug-resistant HIV strains, which would be a grave outcome indeed.Reuters reported that just 5.4% of former HIV+ inmates filled their prescriptions after ten days. Only 17.7% had done so within 30 days, and 30.0% after 60 days - still a strikingly low figure with 70% still off their antiretroviral medication two months after they leave prison.There's a practical, public safety aspect to this that can't be ignored: The creation of drug-resistant HIV would be a very, very bad thing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 01, 2009 (boomark / email).