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DOCN M94A1921
TI The incompatibility of HIV infection with low CD4 count in Italy is the
legalization of killing licence.
DT 9412
AU Garavelli G; DelConte RC; Bruno R; Boninsegna D; Viani M; Salomoni A;
Barbarini G; Dept. of Infect. Dis. University of Pavia, Italy.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):420 (abstract no. PD0288). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370654
AB In Italy 35% of all prisoners (today more than 50,000) are I.V.D.A.
About 60% of them should be (the test is not compulsory) HIV positive.
Recently (1993, July) Italian Legislators issued a law that provides the
immediate release from prison for all HIV+ prisoners presenting CD4
cells count < 100. We think that this law is a populist and talsely
guaranted measure. As provided in WHO Guidelines on HIV Infection and
AIDS in prison. All prisoners have the right to receive health care,
including preventive measures, equivalent to that available in the
community, without discrimination. We hold up as an example four
prisoners, released from Pavia(3) and Voghera(1) penitentiaries between
1993 July and 1994 February. These inmates were completely asymptomatic,
HIV+, and their CD4 were < 100. Three subjects were hospitalized within
36 hours after the release, for heroin overdose; the fourth, an out and
out thief was oriented three other times for theft and immediately
released. Health care is not the release from prison! If a killer of
mafia, camorra ..... should be HIV+ with CD4 < 100, he must be
immediately released from prison. In our country, with this absurd law,
neither patients can receive appropiate health care, neither community
can live without anxiety.
DE Cell Count Guidelines Human Human Rights/*LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD
HIV Infections/IMMUNOLOGY/*THERAPY HIV
Seropositivity/IMMUNOLOGY/*THERAPY Italy Prejudice
Prisoners/*LEGISLATION & JURISPRUD T4 Lymphocytes World Health
Organization MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).