Evidence for Action Technical Papers Effectiveness of Interventions to Manage HIV in Prisons – Needle and syringe programmes and bleach and decontamination strategies
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HIV and incarceration: prisons and detention
The high prevalence of HIV infection among prisoners and pre-trial detainees, combined with overcrowding and sub-standard living conditions sometimes amounting to inhuman or degrading treatment in violation of international law, make prisons and other detention centres a high risk environment for the transmission of HIV. Ultimately, this contributes to HIV epidemics in the communities to which ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2007