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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

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• To give or not to give Namibian prisoners condoms

  While the Namibian Government is to be applauded for implementing a comprehensive HIV testing, counselling, prevention and treatment programme for the benefit of the public, a standardised approach to controlling the same in prisons is lacking

  14 May 2012 | Africa Review

• Businessman Sean Smith opens up on his Africa prison rape hell

  A businessman who contracted HIV after being repeatedly gang raped in a South African prison today opens up on his horrifying two-year ordeal.

  16 April 2012 | Wales Online

• Joint UN Statement calls for the closure of compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centers

  Twelve United Nations entities have issued a joined statement calling for the closure of compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centers. The existence of such centers—which have been operating in many countries for the last 20 years—raises human rights issues and threatens the health of detainees, including through increased vulnerability to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) infection.

  09 March 2012 | UNAIDS

• Undocumented immigrants living with HIV refused medication in South Africa

  A Zimbabwean woman living with HIV had to be ‘rescued’ from jail in South Africa after spending the entire weekend without access to her medication.

  06 March 2012 | Key Correspondents

• Charles Mzite, Man Who Spread HIV, Files Human Rights Complaint Against B.C.

  A man who knowingly spread the HIV virus to four women now complains the British Columbia government failed to consistently provide him with the medication needed to keep his virus under control.

  06 March 2012 | Huffington Post

• Epidemiology 2.0: Deadly Doses of Prison for Drug Users with HIV

  Blaming sick people for system failures is an old problem in public health, particularly when patients are poor or morally suspect. New analysis, though, is turning the microscope around to examine the ways that power structures, rather than individuals, contribute to disease rebound and spread.

  28 February 2012 | Open Society

• Examining HIV/AIDS In Zambian Prisons

  In this post in PSI's "Healthy Living" blog, Mannasseh Phiri, PSI's country representative in Zambia, examines HIV/AIDS in Zambian prisons.

  27 February 2012 | PSI Healthy Lives

• PERU: In Prison, a Little Health Care Goes a Long Way

  "I caught tuberculosis, but I'm lucky because it's been cured," says Hernán Arévalo from his bed in the new hospital at the Peruvian prison of Lurigancho, one of the most crowded and dangerous in Latin America. "Before, whoever came in here was unlikely to get out alive."

  20 January 2012 | Inter Press Service

• In Senegal's Prisons, a Small Victory for AIDS Awareness

  At Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar, Amadou, who withholds his real name to protect his identity, is talking to his sixth and last group of prisoners about AIDS.

  20 January 2012 | Voice of America

• Australia: Prison boss avoids needle exchange row

  The new superintendent of Canberra's jail has differed sharply with his predecessor on the question of a needle exchange at the jail.

  18 January 2012 | Canberra Times

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