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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.

Published
11 March 2013
From
Herald Scotland
Drug-resistant TB
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.

Published
10 March 2013
From
Doctors Without Borders
Prisoners
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.

Published
01 March 2013
From
Medical Xpress
Prisoners
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?

Published
20 February 2013
From
CounterPunch
Prisoners
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.”

Published
03 January 2013
From
New York Times
Prisoners
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.

Published
06 December 2012
From
The Guardian
Prisoners
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.

Published
03 December 2012
From
Poz magazine news
Prisoners
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.

Published
22 November 2012
From
The Guardian
Prisoners
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.

Published
22 November 2012
From
Care2.com (blog)
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Jail Nurse Blabbed About Inmate's HIV, Says Lawsuit Against Sheriff

Sheriff Paul Kaupas and a private nursing company were also named in the suit filed by the attorney for an unidentified man with HIV.

Published
20 November 2012
From
Patch
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