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  Staying safe inside: HIV and hepatitis C health care in prison

  Policies on safer sex and needle exchange in UK prisons seem to have stalled. With a high and increasing prevalence of hepatitis C in our jails, and...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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• 'Social networks' may explain high prevalence of MRSA colonization seen in patients with HIV

  Infection with HIV per se does not increase the risk of colonisation with community-associated MRSA, according to US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The investigators found that prevalence of nasal colonisation with community-associated ...

  27 February 2012 | Michael Carter

• Screening and treatment removes TB as additional punishment in prisons

  Innovative tuberculosis control programmes in prisons have reduced the prevalence of TB, and successfully provided isoniazid preventive therapy and treatment for both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB, researchers reported at the 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health held in Lille ...

  07 November 2011 | Lesley Odendal

• Beliefs about efficacy of HIV treatment predict which urban poor patients start antiretroviral therapy

  Poor patients are more likely to start HIV therapy if they believe that treatment will benefit their health, that they will be able to maintain high levels of adherence, and that they are ready to start treatment, investigators from ...

  26 September 2011 | Michael Carter

• Brief incarceration increases risk of rebound in viral load for patients taking HIV therapy

  Brief incarceration is associated with an increased risk of virological failure for injecting drug users taking HIV therapy, US investigators report in the October 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Spending between seven and 30 days behind bars increased ...

  15 September 2011 | Michael Carter

• Frequency of incarceration associated with risk of poor HIV treatment adherence for injecting drug users

  Incarceration is associated with poor adherence to HIV therapy among injecting drug users, an international team of researchers report in the May 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Just one instance of imprisonment increased the risk of sub-optimal adherence ...

  12 April 2011 | Michael Carter

• Penal reform, decriminalisation of illicit drugs, and increased advocacy all central to improving prisoners' health

  A panel at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna this week recognised the dire level of health need among prisoners and the slow progress currently being made towards prison health reform. Most countries have implemented few  or no ...

  23 July 2010 | Mara Kardas-Nelson

• Over a third of TB cases in UK prisons are drug-resistant

  Many UK prisoners with tuberculosis have a drug-resistant form of the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The research also showed that the majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases ...

  18 March 2010 | Michael Carter

• Almost 30 percent of HIV-positive New York jail inmates may not know their status

  Two new studies in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes call attention to the challenges associated with encouraging inmates in United States jails to undergo HIV testing and receive appropriate health care. One study, conducted by ...

  25 January 2010 | Kelly Safreed-Harmon

• HAART is effective in prisoners, but benefit may be lost upon release

  Inmates respond well to anti-HIV therapy during incarceration, but this benefit is often lost after release, according to an American study published in the June 15th edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The results suggest the need ...

  14 June 2004 | Liz Highleyman

• PEP is feasible in prisons

  HIV transmission may be prevented in the prison setting by administering antiretroviral medication to prisoners within three days of needle-sharing with an HIV-positive prisoner, a new Australian study has reported. It is the first study to document ...

  03 June 2003 | Megan Nicholson

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• Defusing Scotland's HIV prison timebomb

  Twenty years after Glenochil’s notorious outbreak, Roy Kilpatrick looks at how progress has been made to help inmates.

  11 March 2013 | Herald Scotland

• Ukraine: Curbing the MDR-TB Epidemic in Prisons

  Once considered a disease on the decline, tuberculosis (TB) has seen a resurgence in Ukraine and several other post-Soviet countries that endured social and economic tumult after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  10 March 2013 | Doctors Without Borders

• Give needles, condoms to inmates to curb HIV, experts urge

  Giving inmates drug substitution treatment, needles and condoms are key ways to help curb addiction and HIV infection in European jails, experts say, calling on authorities to change their approach to prison health care. "We support opioid substitution treatment and harm reduction measures, including needle exchange programmes. These measures are crucial, otherwise we cannot tackle HIV and other infections in prisons," Stefan Enggist of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said during an international conference on addiction in prisons organised by the Council of Europe this week in Bucharest.

  01 March 2013 | Medical Xpress

• US: HIV-Positive Inmates Too Expensive for Private Prison Operators?

  How efficient is a privatized system of corrections that willfully omits inmates for whom medical care—especially treatments associated with HIV/AIDS—will be most costly?

  20 February 2013 | CounterPunch

• Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Prisoners Denied HIV-Aids Medication in Botswana

  HUMAN rights lawyers representing a group of HIV-positive Zimbabweans incarcerated in Botswana are set to file papers in the Gaborone High Court later this month to force the state to provide anti-retroviral treatment to foreign inmates.

  13 January 2013 | AllAfrica

• Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With HIV

  A federal judge ordered Alabama to stop isolating prisoners with H.I.V. The judge called the state’s policy “an unnecessary tool for preventing the transmission of H.I.V.” but “an effective one for humiliating and isolating prisoners living with the disease.”

  03 January 2013 | New York Times

• Two HIV-positive men take on Zambia government over prison conditions

  George Mwanza accused officials of violating his human rights, and those of other inmates with HIV, by failing to provide adequate care in prison.

  06 December 2012 | The Guardian

• GMHC Releases HIV Policy Recommendations for Prisons

  A new report by Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) addresses the domestic epidemics of HIV and mass incarceration. Fenced In: HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Criminal Justice System explores why communities with high rates of incarceration also have high HIV rates.

  03 December 2012 | Poz magazine news

• Alabama's prison HIV segregation policy due for justice

  The manner in which HIV-positive prisoners in Alabama are treated by ADOC officials suggests that those in charge are either deeply prejudiced towards these prisoners, deeply ignorant of how the HIV virus is spread, or, more likely, both.

  22 November 2012 | The Guardian

• HIV-Positive Inmates Kept Isolated in Some Parts of U.S

  Inmates who are H.I.V. positive in Alabama and South Carolina — but nowhere else in the U.S. — are kept isolated from other prisoners in order to (say authorities) prevent the virus that causes AIDS from spreading and to keep medical costs down.

  22 November 2012 | Care2.com (blog)

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