Overwhelming evidence shows that a range of health concerns—mental illness, substance dependence, HIV/AIDS, and noncommunicable diseases—affect prisoners disproportionately. But, while incarceration poses risks to health—including inadequate nutrition and exposure to violence—prisons also pr
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esent important opportunities to promote health and risk reduction that need to be tapped.
Some recommended remedies:
Health ministries, not ministries of justice, should manage health care responsibilities
Ensure that testing is available, but not mandatory, for infectious diseases
Make prison health part of the broader public health agenda
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Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
Towards gender - transformative HIV and TB responses
The guidelines acknowledge that overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and high inmate turn over contribute to the spread of infectious diseases within correctional facilities. The document states that voluntary HIV counselling and testing must be offered to all inmates when they enter facilities, duri
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ng their incarceration at an inmate’s request and upon their release. All inmates must be screened for TB symptoms upon entry to facilities and at least bi-annually thereafter as well as upon release. Universal screening for anal, oral and genital STIs must be done at entry and upon self-presentation
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Federal Bureau of Prisons
Clinical Practice Guidelines
January 1010
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Recommendations and Reports: July 7, 2006 / Vol. 55 / No. RR-9
Guidance on Implending Publi-Private Mix Approaches
Blueprint for EECA countries, first edition
Single TB and HIV Concept Note Albania 2016-2018 27 April 2015
Literature Review on TB Control in Prisons 11/18/2008
Mapping Report - Ireland.
Guidelines for social mobilization
TB and poverty; TB and children; TB and women; TB, migrant
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s and refugees; TB and prisons
WHO/CDS/STB/2001.9
Original: English; Distribution: Limited
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