[Clinical course of HIV infection in a cohort of 100 drug addicts in prison from 1984 to 1988].

A population of 100 drug addicts, two of whom were homosexual, all of them jailed has been considered. Patients were admitted on more than one occasion to a specially equipped ward for jailed patients at the "Amedeo di Savoia" of USL 4 of Turin. The clinical course of the condition brought on by HIV infection was compared with a similar sample of non-imprisoned subjects.

[Risk of HIV infection in health personnel involved in tasks of assistance, diagnosis and treatment. Description of 2 cases: one, of ascertained infection, the other under observation].

Having examined the literature on the subject, the risk of medical assistants contracting HIV infection accidentally while working in wards where seropositive patients are systematically or occasionally admitted for this viral infection is discussed.