Prisons and AIDS

HIV/AIDS in prisons: recent developments.

In a report released on 20 November 2002, entitled Action on HIV/AIDS in Prisons: Too Little, Too Late--A Report Card, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network concluded that despite repeated studies and nearly ten years of recommendations for urgent and pragmatic action, the response of Canadian governments to HIV/AIDS, HCV, and injection drug use in prisons remains inadequate. Only a few weeks lat...

Trend of HIV/AIDS Prevalence and Related Interventions Administered in Prisons of Iran -13 Years’ Experience

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS epidemic is concentrated among injecting drug users in Iran. Like many other countries with HIV/AIDS concentrated epidemic, prisons are high risk areas for spreading HIV/AIDS. The aim of this paper was to study the trend of HIV/AIDS prevalence and related interventions administered in prisons of Iran during a 13 years period. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducte...

AIDS Law: Impact of AIDS on American Schools and Prisons, The

ارزشیابی برنامه های کاهش آسیب در زندان های ایران بر اساس نگرش و نظرات مدیران و کارکنان و پزشکان زندان ها

  Background and Aim: probably after pestilence, HIV/AIDS is most important and severe health threat for public health. Prisons could facilitate the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis and transmit it to societies. The main strategy to control HIV/AIDS and hepatitis among Injecting Drug Users is Harm Reduction Programs. These programs are conducted in Iran Prisons. The goal of this study is to eva...

WHO status paper on prisons, drugs and harm reduction.

The Status Paper on Prisons, Drugs and Harm Reduction was adopted at the WHO International Meeting on Prisons and Health in De Leeuwenhorst, the Netherlands on 22 October 2004. The meeting was organized in cooperation with the National Agency of Correctional Services, the Ministry of Justice, the Netherlands and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe. The meeting was co-sponsored by the WH...