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A group of researchers found that while the total number of incarcerated individuals affected by HIV/AIDS has remained nearly the same from 1997 to 2006, the percentage of incarcerated individuals with HIV has declined. Their findings were published in PLoS ONE, an online peer-reviewed journal.
In 1997, 7.3 million people were released from a United States correctional facility. Nearly one in five, or 20 percent, of all HIV-infected Americans was among those released. By 2006, that percentage declined. Nearly 14 percent, or one in seven, of Americans affected by the…