Quarto M, Germinario C, Troiano T, Fontana A, Barbuti S
Istituto di Igiene, Università degli Studi di Bari.
Riv Eur Sci Med Farmacol. 1990 Apr;12(2):119-25.
We carried out an epidemiological study in jail community of Bari, in order to evaluate the incidence of drug abuse on the presence of HIV infection among prison inmates. During the period 1988-89, 1609 adults have been examined 40% of whom were intravenous drug abusers, and 221 adolescents, the 9.5% included in the mentioned risk groups. The average of HIV infection in adult population resulted of 15.4%. The 85% of drug abusers were aged 18 to 30. In this population the seroprevalence resulted of 33.4%, in front of the 3.5% of non drug abusers prisoners while only two cases of seropositivity were found in adolescents among the 21 drug abusers (9.5%). Prevalence in drug abusers was not different from that observed in a population of drug abusers who lived in the general population. These results further confirm that prisons represent a reservoir for HIV infection in relation to the drug abuse problem.
我们在巴里监狱社区开展了一项流行病学研究，以评估药物滥用对监狱 inmates 中艾滋病毒感染情况的影响。在1988 - 1989年期间，对1609名成年人进行了检查，其中40%为静脉注射吸毒者，还有221名青少年，上述风险人群中占9.5%。成年人群体中艾滋病毒感染率平均为15.4%。85%的吸毒者年龄在18至30岁之间。在这一群体中，血清阳性率为33.4%，而非吸毒囚犯的这一比例为3.5%，在21名吸毒青少年（占9.5%）中仅发现两例血清阳性病例。吸毒者中的患病率与生活在普通人群中的吸毒人群中观察到的患病率没有差异。这些结果进一步证实，就药物滥用问题而言，监狱是艾滋病毒感染的一个储存库。
