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The financial cost of maintaining relationships with incarcerated African American men: A survey of women prison visitors

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  1. the Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, USA

    Olga Grinstead (associate professor) & Bonnie Faigeles (statistician)

  2. Centerforce in San Quentin, California, USA

    Barry Zack (the director of the Health Programs Division)

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  1. Olga Grinstead
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  3. Carrie Bancroft
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Carrie Bancroft worked at Centerforce Health Programs Division directing the Love Your Man, Love Yourself project, a peer-led HIV prevention intervention for women with incarcerated partners.

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Grinstead, O., Faigeles, B., Bancroft, C. et al. The financial cost of maintaining relationships with incarcerated African American men: A survey of women prison visitors. Journal of African American Men 6, 59–69 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-001-1014-2

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