The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Prisons

T Chikungwa, NJ Mesatywa - Journal of Human Ecology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
HIV/AIDS pandemic in prisons generally and will also embrace the United Kingdom (UK)
imprisonment … Both prison systems have a high number of prisoners who have drug problems …

HIV/AIDS among inmates of and releasees from US correctional facilities, 2006: declining share of epidemic but persistent public health opportunity

AC Spaulding, RM Seals, MJ Page, AK Brzozowski… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
… of inmates and releasees has risen, their HIV seroprevalence rates have fallen. We sought to
determine if the share of HIV/AIDS borne by inmates … out of correctional facilities to estimate …

Prisoners, prisons, and HIV: time for reform

C Beyrer, A Kamarulzaman, M McKee - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
… human rights of prisoners were not widely recognised and before the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
the War on Drugs, and the high prevalence of mental disorders among prisoners. Bringing the …

HIV and incarceration: prisons and detention

R Jürgens, M Nowak, M Day - African Journal of Reproduction …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… The rates of HIV infection among prisoners in many countries … Coincident with the HIV/AIDS
epidemic, many countries have … of prisoners, prison health services and HIV/AIDS in prisons, …

HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases among correctional inmates: transmission, burden, and an appropriate response

TM Hammett - American Journal of Public Health, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
… During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, prisons and jails were commonly called
breeding grounds for AIDS. Such statements are still made today. A Google search on May 19, …

Control of epidemics by jails: lessons for COVID-19 from HIV

T Ohuabunwa, AC Spaulding - The Lancet HIV, 2020 - thelancet.com
… potentially, the HIV/AIDS epidemic could be ended.However, progress towards the HIV/AIDS
90-… of a prospective cohort study at three correctional facilities in South Africa and Zambia, …

Mass incarceration in the United States and HIV/AIDS: Cause and effect

RE Fullilove - Ohio St. J. Crim. L., 2011 - HeinOnline
… practices of mass incarceration in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I … factor in this epidemic; I hope
to show that our incarceration of so … , our state and federal prisons were themselves becoming …

[HTML][HTML] Pandemic stresses the human rights imperatives of tackling HIV and hepatitis in Middle East and North African prisons

MC Van Hout, E Aaraj - Health and human rights: An international …, 2020 - hhrjournal.org
… About half all prisoners are drug dependent with many introduced to intravenous injecting
during incarceration. [11] In 1990, a serious HIV outbreak in Iranian prisons resulted from …

[图书][B] Dying inside: The HIV/AIDS ward at limestone prison

BD Fleury-Steiner - 2009 - books.google.com
… But the primary focus here is on the HIV/AIDS epidemic behind bars. The next chapter
begins by arguing that Limestone does not represent a “Southern anomaly" but is an extreme …

On both sides of the prison walls—prisoners and HIV

P Das, R Horton - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
… hope to bring widespread attention to prisoners as a key population in the HIV pandemic. …
being marginalised in the HIV/AIDS response, and this includes prisoners and detainees. …