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Article: HIV Risk-Related Attitudes and Behaviors of Incarcerated Adolescents: Implications for Public School Students.
- Article from:
- High School Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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Introduction
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 872 new cases of HIV infection had been reported in adolescents ages 13 through 19 years by midyear of 1992 (Child Health USA '92, p. 35). The number of adolescent AIDS cases doubled to 1,768 cases by June 1994 (CDC, 1994). Sexual intercourse is the exposure factor in 44% of cases of AIDS in adolescents: in 23% of cases, males reported having sex with other males; in 18% of cases, males engaged in heterosexual activity with a person who is HIV-infected or in a high-risk group; and 3% of cases were males reporting sexual activity and intravenous drug use (IDU) behaviors (Boyer & Ellen, ...