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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV Topic: Prisoners

News and information about HIV in prisoners, jails and other correctional facilities. Limited access to condoms, sterile injecting equipment and medical care facilitate HIV transmission in prison. Poor quality health care worsens HIV outcomes of HIV-positive people during incarceration.

Harm reduction

Failure to provide naloxone at the point of release for most prisoners is putting lives at risk

Editor's pick
Drink & Drug News
11 July 2018
Hepatitis C treatment

State Prisons Fail To Offer Cure To 144000 Inmates With Deadly Hepatitis C

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Kaiser Health News
9 July 2018
HIV testing policies & guidelines

‘Opt-out’ testing for HIV and hep C is seen as coercive by many prisoners

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AVERT
15 June 2018
Prisoners

A Day in the Life: Physician Cares for HIV-Positive Patients in Jail

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Journal of the American Medical Association
31 May 2018
Harm reduction

Canada reveals needle exchange programme in prisons

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The Lancet (requires free registration)
25 May 2018
Hepatitis C treatment

EATG launches a report on access to HCV-related services in the penitentiary system in Europe

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EATG
23 May 2018
Discrimination & the law

US Jail to Pay $27,500 to Inmate Who Was Isolated for Having HIV

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Poz
3 April 2018
Prisoners

Treatment with extended-release naltrexone increases chances that HIV-positive prisoners will maintain viral suppression after release

News
13 March 2018
Prisoners

Blood-borne viruses in prison: guidelines launched for prevention, testing and treatment

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NAT
11 December 2017
Prisoners

In Prison, Women Are 9 Times More Likely to Be HIV-Positive

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The Nation
28 November 2017
Prisoners

US: State and Federal Prisons See a Drastic Drop in HIV Rates

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HIV Plus
4 September 2017
Hepatitis C treatment

Substantial fall in Hepatitis C rates in Canberra's jail with new treatments

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The Canberra Times
31 July 2017
TB treatment

WHO issues ethics guidance to protect rights of TB patients

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World Health Organization
23 March 2017
Tuberculosis & HIV

Tuberculosis deaths fall in Europe

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Reuters
21 March 2017
Prisoners

‘Significant success’ in reducing TB and HIV/Aids in SA’s prisons

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Medical Brief
16 March 2017
Economic & social inequality

Researchers examine how drug policy impacts HIV vulnerability among African-Americans

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EurekAlert
21 November 2016
Prisoners

How Does Incarceration Impact the Spread of HIV?

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TheBody.com
11 October 2016
Prisoners

Neglect of infectious diseases in prisons highlighted at AIDS 2016

News
25 August 2016
Prisoners

Prisoners pose biggest risk for HIV infection rates in the EECA

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University of Bristol
26 July 2016
Prisoners

South Africa: All HIV Positive Inmates to Receive Treatment

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AllAfrica
22 July 2016
Access to healthcare

AIDS 2016 focuses on impact of legal and policy barriers to HIV services for groups at greatest risk of infection

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AIDS 2016
18 July 2016
Prisoners

The Lancet: Mass imprisonment of drug users driving global epidemics of HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis

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EurekAlert
17 July 2016
Prisoners

Mass incarceration of drug users in South Africa 'driving global epidemics'

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Daily Mail
15 July 2016
Human rights

UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS faces battle over key populations

News
7 June 2016