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Disadvantaged adolescents at high risk for HIV infection.
A study of HIV infection in Job Corps students by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that these socially and educationally disavantaged young persons "are at high risk for HIV infection." In addition, the screening results showed a "surprisingly high seroprevalence in the southeastern United States and demonstrated a marked shift in the HIV epidemic to young women," according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association [266:2387-2391, 1991].
"Broad public health programs should be initiated to reach out-of-school youth, and physicians should view each contact with an adolescent as an opportunity to discuss the risk of HIV infection …
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