Prisons and AIDS: A Public Health Challenge

by Ronald L. Braithwaite, Robert M. Mayberry, Theodore M. Hammett

Book Overview

A Growing Health Crisis ?An illuminating discussion of the complex problems of HIV/AIDS within the correctional setting, including its impact on the families and communities of those incarcerated.--Mervyn F. Silverman, M.D., MPH, former director of health, San Francisco, former president, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) The first book to offer critical information on the proliferation of HIV and AIDS among prison populations, this is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787903086
• ISBN13: 9780787903084
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"