HIV/AIDS in prisons: recent developments.

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 and Prisons

The possible transmission of HIV/AIDS throughout the community is a serious issue. The nation's gaols, with their changing population, are of particular concern. This concern is reflected in some recent government initiatives: the New South Wales State Cabinet is planning to empower magistrates to order carriers of the virus to undergo medical treatment, counselling and surveillance; the Queens...

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...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

HIV and incarceration: dual epidemics.

As a result of changes in the epidemiology of the HIV epidemic and in criminal justice policies over the past 2 decades, HIV infection in the United States has become concentrated in prisons and jails. The widespread incarceration of persons with or at risk for HIV infection has important public health ramifications, including but not limited to the intraprison spread of the virus. Incarceratio...