With HIV rates on the rise in Milwaukee, there’s a proposal to mandate testing as state inmates are released from prison. Doctor Patricia McManus with the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin noted that African Americans account for more than fifty percent of the state’s adult prison population, and that inmates in general, and black man in particular, usually don’t talk about sexual contacts they may have while in prison. “They won’t tell what their activities are,” McManus said. “There are people who do not see themselves as a homosexual or as gay, and some are not, they engage in it for a number of reasons.” [click to continue…]
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