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Article: Environmental barriers to HIV prevention among incarcerated adolescents: a qualitative assessment.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Adolescents are at increasing risk for HIV infection. Half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur among people aged 25 or younger and the majority of these infections are sexually transmitted (Office of National AIDS Policy, 1996). Nationally, the number of new HIV infections is declining; however, there is no comparable decline among adolescents (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2001).
Among adolescents, those in juvenile detention facilities are at disproportionate risk for HIV infection (Teplin, Mericle, McClelland, & Abram, 2003). Compared to nondetained adolescents, incarcerated adolescents report earlier sexual debut (Robertson & Levin, ...