Health service confirms increase in HIV patients treated at county jail

At one metro Atlanta county jail, the number of patients coming into the facility already in need of treatment for HIV has gone up.

The increased prevalence of detainees with HIV at the Rockdale County Jail was presented to the county commission on Oct. 27.

At that meeting, a representative from NaphCare, which provides health services at the Rockdale County Jail, told the commissioners that the number being treated per day at the jail had more than doubled…

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