
Over one-quarter (28%) experienced incarceration-related partnership dissolution.

Among African American men released from prison who were in committed partnerships with women at the time of incarceration (N = 207), we measured the association between committed partnership dissolution during incarceration and STI/HIV risk in the 4 weeks after release. One pathway linking incarceration and STI/HIV risk may be incarceration-related dissolution of protective network ties. Incarceration is strongly associated with post-release STI/HIV risk. 9 Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, FL, USA.8 Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.7 Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.6 Division of Infectious Disease, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.5 National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY, USA.


1 Division of Comparative Effectiveness and Decision Science, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
