{"id":1267,"date":"2021-02-24T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T20:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:52:40","slug":"knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021\u2014Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed\u00a0Journal of Women\u2019s Health.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/10.1089\/jwh.2020.8417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here\u00a0to read the article now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared to an estimated 0.16 per 100 person-years for women in the U.S. overall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10630\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Knittel\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACOG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEven among a sample of women who are identified as being at-risk of HIV, those with the greatest degree of ongoing HIV risk are those most often incarcerated,\u201d says\u00a0Jaimie Meyer, MD, Yale School of Medicine, in an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/10.1089\/jwh.2020.8841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accompanying editorial<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cMoreover, one-fifth of participants had male sexual partners who were incarcerated prior to or during the women\u2019s study involvement. This study\u00a0confirms intersectional risks for both criminal justice involvement and HIV among a key population of women, which has important implications for interventions that can address health disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings suggest that there is a critical need to provide HIV prevention interventions for women who have experienced incarceration as part of an effort to disrupt the cycle of HIV risk and incarceration. In particular, U.S. women who experience HIV risk due to drug use are also likely to bear a disproportionate burden of policing, arrest and incarceration,\u201d state AK Knittel, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and coauthors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021\u2014Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed\u00a0Journal of Women\u2019s Health.\u00a0Click here\u00a0to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80368,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wph","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021\u2014Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed\u00a0Journal of Women\u2019s Health.\u00a0Click here\u00a0to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared &hellip; Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"makerr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"makerr\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"makerr\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f\"},\"headline\":\"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\"},\"wordCount\":256,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"WPH\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\",\"name\":\"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg\",\"width\":1500,\"height\":2100,\"caption\":\"Andrea Knittel\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/\",\"name\":\"UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f\",\"name\":\"makerr\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251b736a8ad48cb62574c653d9dba28de8792ac5877fa9416af08d65a317f23e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251b736a8ad48cb62574c653d9dba28de8792ac5877fa9416af08d65a317f23e?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"makerr\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/author\/makerr\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology","og_description":"New Rochelle, NY, February 17, 2021\u2014Nearly half (46.7%) of women in the U.S. at risk for HIV have been incarcerated, according to a new study. The study is published in the peer-reviewed\u00a0Journal of Women\u2019s Health.\u00a0Click here\u00a0to read the article now. The incarceration rate for women at risk for HIV was 5.5 per 100 person-years, compared &hellip; Read more","og_url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/","og_site_name":"UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology","article_published_time":"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1500,"height":2100,"url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"makerr","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"makerr","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/"},"author":{"name":"makerr","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f"},"headline":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV","datePublished":"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/"},"wordCount":256,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","keywords":["WPH"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/","name":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV - UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","datePublished":"2021-02-24T16:30:53+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-01T20:52:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","width":1500,"height":2100,"caption":"Andrea Knittel"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2021\/02\/24\/knittel-study-examines-incarceration-among-women-at-risk-for-hiv\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Knittel study examines incarceration among women at risk for HIV"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/","name":"UNC Department of Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/3e3908b711d329a56d8b3e8d1f30408f","name":"makerr","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251b736a8ad48cb62574c653d9dba28de8792ac5877fa9416af08d65a317f23e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251b736a8ad48cb62574c653d9dba28de8792ac5877fa9416af08d65a317f23e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"makerr"},"url":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/author\/makerr\/"}]}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland-214x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland-768x1075.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland-731x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/hduvj.knitteland-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Andrea Knittel","category_details":[{"name":"Uncategorized","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/uncategorized\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"WPH","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/tag\/wph\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}