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Are Immigration Officials Ignoring HIV-Positive Detainees' Medical Needs?

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Are Immigration Officials Ignoring HIV-Positive Detainees' Medical Needs?

http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3999.cfm
By the DiversityInc staff
8/7/2008

American immigration officials are denying proper medical care to some detained undocumented immigrants who are HIV-positive, according to an Associated Press story in the New York Daily News.

Reports say there have been numerous instances where HIV-positive detainees have been denied access to adequate medical care, including a 23-year-old transgender woman who died in a cell, handcuffed to a bed, after vomiting blood for close to three days.
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