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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks 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.

Prisoners

Louisiana prisons' failure to treat HIV could violate human rights, report says

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The Guardian
2 April 2016
PrEP

HIV Mystery: Solved?

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The Nation
1 March 2016
Prisoners

New Report and Monitoring Tool: HIV, HCV, TB and Harm Reduction in Prisons

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Harm Reduction International
10 February 2016
Economic & social inequality

Cutting prison sentences could reduce spread of HIV, study suggests

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EurekAlert
9 February 2016
Harm reduction

Prison needle programs touted to reduce HIV and Hep C

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Toronto Star
3 February 2016
TB treatment

Unlikely perk of prison life: Free, speedy TB treatment

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Mail & Guardian
12 January 2016
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Hepatitis C prevention, control efforts should focus on incarcerated individuals

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EurekAlert (press release)
17 December 2015
Prisoners

Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of AIDS?

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New York Times
15 December 2015
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Hepatitis C screening of prison inmates would benefit wider community, be cost-effective

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
24 November 2015
Treatment guidelines

How do we maximise global HIV treatment access? IAPAC Care Continuum Guidelines make recommendations

News
9 November 2015
HIV prevention policy

Europe’s response to HIV: ECDC reports identify key areas for action

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ECDC
15 September 2015
Prisoners

Botswana prisons: Foreign inmates win case for free HIV treatment

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BBC
28 August 2015
Prisoners

The missing link in new US AIDS strategy

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The Hill
20 August 2015
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Hepatitis cases responsible for 93% of prison disease reports

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Public Health England press release
16 June 2015
Hepatitis C treatment

Prisoners Sue Massachusetts for Withholding Hepatitis C Drugs

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Wall Street Journal (blog)
16 June 2015
Hepatitis C treatment

Hepatitis C treatment for people in prison may be highly cost-effective in England

News
21 May 2015
Prisoners

Prison methadone reduces HIV risk behaviours

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Drug & Alcohol Findings
7 April 2015
Condoms & lubricant

Activists Protest Denial of Condoms to Africa’s High-Risk Groups

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Inter Press Service
30 March 2015
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

World first trials for hepatitis C wonder drug in Sydney's maximum security jails

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Sydney Morning Herald
30 March 2015
TB diagnosis

South Africa: Pledge to turn tide in the war on TB

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Times Live
17 February 2015
Prisoners

Why the Hepatitis Cure Sovaldi Is a Budgetary Disaster for Prisons

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New York Times
7 August 2014
Access to healthcare

Maximizing the benefits of antiretroviral therapy for key populations

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International AIDS Society
24 July 2014
Discrimination & the law

In The HIV Response, Who is ‘Hard to Reach’?

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Human Rights Watch
23 July 2014
Prisoners

Russia's HIV Epidemic Starts In Its Prisons

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The Moscow Times
15 July 2014